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...

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried to see them off into life and hoped that the...

But what I do believe is that if you’re a girl who was born in Homsea, a girl who lives in a nothing kind of house with an ordinary kind of family, then you can’t...

Writers will happen in the best of families.

It seems like it has been forever. But i getbthe feeling that forever hasn’t even started yet.

Always remember when it comes to family arguments and disputes. “Blood is thicker than anger.

To get here had been painful, but for once in my life I felt free.

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

Considering our states of mind just the week before, it was hard to believe that the five of us could all be so free and happy, so uninhibited, and all dancing at once, but I...

And when he got home he started on Mumma. He hated her then, because in her fatness and untidiness and drabness she reminded him of what he himself was when he was sober.

It isn’t, really. Just pick what you like.” I like crystal-blue. Luckily, I didn’t say those words aloud.

The Jews have a saying worth remembering: “Whoever doesn’t teach his son some trade or business, teaches him to be a thief.” As soon as ever I can, I will make my children apprehensive of...

Hermes gazed up at the stars. ‘My dear young cousin, if there’s one thing I’ve learned over the eons, it’s that you can’t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it....

Where I come from, family’s defined as those who don’t screw you over a paycheck. Blood makes no difference. If you can trust them with your life and know that they’ll be there come whatever...

How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in...

I was about to say that we all hurt the ones we love. That we can’t help it and that for some reason, we’re just defective like that. Maybe because those we love most bring...

a father for whom everything is an unshakable duty, for whom there is a right way and a wrong way and nothing in between, a father whose compound of ambitions, biases, and beliefs is so...

a place where the person you least want to live with always lives.” His definition applies equally to the group that gathers each Thanksgiving and the group that congregates each Sunday morning. (p. 64-65, Church:...

[Robert’s eulogy at his brother, Ebon C. Ingersoll’s grave. Even the great orator Robert Ingersoll was choked up with tears at the memory of his beloved brother]The record of a generous life runs like a...

True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back to your critics because they need it more than you do.

Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.

Doing evil to another person doesn’t prove your love and loyalty to another person; it proves your significant other wants you to walk away from the light because they are lonely living in the dark.

I’ll be your family now,” he says. “I love you,” I say. (….)He stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms for stability as he considers his response. He frowns at me....

You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn’t depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or...

To be successful in life, plan, implement, revise, update, and build on change.

TAKE Risk because you never know how absolutely perfect something could turn out to be..

Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.

Feminist movement is pro-family.

They be marching hand in hand, like going to war.

The Wife Of Ted Wickham”)

…; Clary saw the group of lycanthropes look up, alert as a group of hunting dogs senting game. She turned- And saw Luke, tired and bloodstained, coming through the double doors of the Hall. She...

I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!

Our pets are our family.

An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course; always charting new course for her loved ones.

I suppose it must be admitted that I was raised in a “dysfunctional” family, but in truth, I do not think I had any sense of that as I was growing up. Probably part of...

I wanted to see my family, but didn’t want to leave the other guys. The people waiting for us were strangers, even though I knew every last one of them.