All she wanted was a family, all he wanted was fame; as their relationship famished.

All i have to offer is this: i hold a valid driver’s license and I know the way to the hospital. I can hang curtains, flip a mattress, load a dishwasher. I can deliver a...

Heaven is comfort, but it’s still not living.

In every Magical, or similar system, it is invariably the first condition which the Aspirant must fulfill: he must once and for all and for ever put his family outside his magical circle.Even the Gospels...

It amazes me when education, religion and family values fail to create a human being.

Substitute the word gay for straight and she’s the exact same pain in the neck kid sister she was before she told us.

Tatlo ang magulang ng henerasyon natin. Ang tatay, ang nanay, at ang mga patalastas o media. Kaya kung mahina yung dalawang nauna, naagawan sila ng ikatlo sa pagpapalaki sa bata.

එහෙත් මේ කිසිවක් නොදත් , සෑහෙන කාලයක් රවිඳු හා ඇලඩින් සමඟ මේ කාමරයේ රහසේ දිවි ගෙවූ අසරණ සත්ත්වයා හුදෙකලාව මහා සයුර මතින් තමාගේ මවු රට බලා පියාසලනවා ඇත. විඩාබර වූ කල්හි, කුසගිනි දැනුණ විටදී තවත්...

Family drama is a trade off for having family.

I certainly didn’t concur with Edward on everything, but I was damned if I would hear him abused without saying a word. And I think this may be worth setting down, because there are other...

If disguise was a vehicle, murder was a world.

From “Caleb’s Crossing”–This is an excellent thought about family though it doesn’t apply to me. I am lucky in my brothers.”Now, of all times in my life, did I wish Caleb truly was my brother,...

The emotional trauma of a security breach can sometimes stay with a person for the rest of their lives. This is why the best prevention efforts are important for your family.

Children have no business expressing opinions on anything except “Do you have enough room in the toes?

All the best and worse things in us are bound up in the legacy of our family. As children we ardently trust in the stability or, in some cases, the instability we were born into....

When the wounded were screaming, you dreamed of sharing a little house somewhere, of an ordinary life, of a family line, connection. All around him, men were walking silently with their thoughts, reforming their lives,...

Seconds later, the female security officer grabbed a pair of my father’s shorts from the top of the duffel bag, and emptied out the contents of his pockets. A lighter, three nail files, a pocket...

At home, they’d clipped my wings and then caged me so I couldn’t fall. Here, they bandaged one another’s broken wings, helped each other fly.

The first door in the hall leads to youth, the second door leads to middle age, and the third door leads to the bathroom. But knock first, because I think grandpa’s in there.

Not necessary that every problem has a solution, you have to live with ‘some’ problems..rather than forcing a solution and doing a blunder, live with it.. People always have solutions for ‘your’ problems but none...

In a husband there is only a man; in a married woman there is a man, a father, and mother, and a woman

The greater the pain associated with love, the more likely a person is to be attracted to others who will inflict this pain…for isn’t this what love is? Hurt people tend to hurt other people.

England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare’s muchd message, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr Goebbels. More than either it resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black...

She could hear the voices and laughter coming from the yard, and she thought, really, this was the best part of any wedding, not the ceremony or the cake or the dancing but the downtime...

[I]n Africa I was a member of a family—of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven’t known for thousands of years. If gorillas were capable of such an expression, they would...

That’s what I’m doing with your father. I love him. So, honestly—just let it go already.

With the money I spend on alcohol, I could support a family of four, assuming they are all heavy drinkers.

In my final years in Green Bay, when I wasn’t getting the ball, people would ask me why I never complained.’Because these guys are my family,’ I would say. ‘I’m not selfish. It’s not about...

I only like bubble gum if it’s flavored like the bottom of my shoe. I once stepped on my stepdad, but he was dressed like a puddle so it’s not like I’m at fault.

A father and son walked into a bar, and the bartender didn’t serve either because the one didn’t look old enough. And he was right. Who becomes a dad in middle school?

Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

Love may start out as a good feeling, but to love someone long-term is an act of the will.

Had Elizabeth’s opinion been all drawn from her own family, she could not have formed a very pleasing picture of conjugal felicity or domestic comfort.

Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that’s the beauty of it, too.

You can’t raise happy kids in a happy family if you aren’t happy and don’t know who you are. You can’t pin your life on someone else’s happiness.

If we adopted Jack,” I quip, “we’d have to give him combat pay for an allowance

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

Once our family was very small and we used to say, ‘’our planet has enough resources to feed all of us’’ but today, we are not that family and it is a burden on our...

May our hearts be filled with great love for one another.

Now the snow’s coming down, and im watching it fall. Watching the people around, baby please come home. Pretty lights on a tree, and im watching you shine. You should be here with me! Baby...

Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as “our brother’s...

My mom was sitting at the kitchen table. She’d set her coffee down, making a noise that made me look her way. I’d begun to notice her less and less often, like her colors were...

Survivors often develop an exaggerated need for control in their adult relationships. It’s the only way they feel safe. They also struggle with commitment—saying yes in a relationship means being trapped in yet another family...

At that moment Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn’t know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with, and he reached out in order to meet her for...

You’re good at love,” she said simply, because it seemed to her that it was true. “I’m not so good at love. I’m like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away.”He shrugged. “I...

But to mourn, that’s different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person.

so familiar that you slide back to the place where you fit.

You know those lists that get put together? ‘Top Ten Companies to Work For’ and that kinda thing? Yeah, you are so not helping this be one of those places.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

It has an L on it. L for love. See? It’s the key to the universe, Dad. You said you were looking for it. You told Mom you were. I found it for you so...