A small world where people know each other, and still so deep, able to get lost.

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

In the fall he picked up his phone one afternoon to hear Grandma Lynn.’Jack,’ my grandmother announced, ‘I am thinking of coming to stay.’ My father was silent, but the line was riddled with his...

I recently consulted to a therapist who felt he had accomplished something by getting his dissociative client to remain in her ANP throughout her sessions with him. His view reflects the fundamental mistake that untrained...

Family isn’t blood. It’s the people who love you. The people who have your back.

But without a family, a man is nothing.

You feel love when it touches you

A loving mother makes sacrifices for peace and laughter to reign in her home and family.

People need space; families need air; love needs light. Like Mrs. Anastagio always said, ―You need enough rooms to love someone properly.

Family isn’t blood,” she said bitterly, continuing to back away. “Family is who loves you, who takes care of you.

It’s very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you’re not perfect.

Mom always said too much chocolate is like having too much love—you can’t get enough-Geraldine Solon, Chocolicious

Just be happy. And if you can’t be happy, do things that make you happy. Or do nothing with people that make you happy.

Human interaction. The most complicated form of happiness I will never figure out.

…we should be grateful for them because without our family—the ancestors we descend from, the cousins we see once a year, the loves our lives we see every day—life is pretty boring.

We are not defined by belief or by faith nor religion.We are the family of God.

You don’t turn your back on family, even when they do.

From the ages of 8-18, me and my family moved around a lot. Mostly we would just stretch, but occasionally one of us would actually get up to go to the fridge.

I had to hand it to him, leaving the empty glove lying on the bed was an apt metaphor for love. Two things I can say about my grandpa are that he is wise, and...

Grandmother pointed out my brother Perry, my sister Sarah, and my sister Eliza, who stood in the group. I had never seen my brother nor my sisters before; and, though I had sometimes heard of...

Your ancestors are rooting for you.

Under this aura of perfection he knows how flawed he really is but his intact denial system keeps this awareness suppressed in the far recesses of his mind.

I think LOVE. Love is what brings families together, and love is often what drives them apart. Love can act as both a fuel and an exterminator for fire, a cause of war, but also...

Of all the gifts you can get, friends and family are the best!

…I also have an extended family. The people who stayed. The people who became more than friends; the people who open the door when I knock. That’s what it all boils down to. The people...

Yes. Apparently they are.

I think I just inhaled a cloud shaped like the ghost of my grandpa, and all I have to say is grandma smelled better.

Because of the age difference, I assumed they were related, mother/daughter. But they weren’t. They were father/son/possible lovers.

I’ll mark up my services 200%, and then offer them to you at a 50% discount—because I like you so much. That’s the Mother-in-law Discount.

My son’s name will be Sonya, like his mother, whose name will be Dadya.

The loss of that oral tradition and the breakdown of communication between generations had set my family adrift, floating aimlessly without history and all its accumulated experience to guide us. We need context, we need...

Families are weird. You’d think that people who live and eat and sleep in the same place would always have a lot in common. But sometimes they don’t have anything in common AT ALL. You...

There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

The trouble with cousins, Lizabeth thought, was that they knew all about you, even your allergies.

My parents’ work ethic amazed me. How could they put in such long hours, day after day?Part of the reason was to keep the family going – to keep me going. I realized that, although...

Family is in essence a small nation, and the nation a large family. In treating his own family with dignity, a ruler learns to govern his nation with dignity

Gran runs her fingers through my hair, smiling down at me. I’m to weak to reach up and trace her laugh lines, but I trace them with my eyes, thinking of all the years that...

Certain women because of their female power and seductiveness could bring destruction to a family.

We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion.

Si no quiere abrazarme, entonces que tampoco se acerque para golpearme.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Will laughed. ‘I now know why fate linked you with Xav. You are going to tease each other unmercifully.’Victorthrew down a card. ‘Might make the world a little safer for the rest of us then.”Unless...

There are some things in life that shouldn’t be given so much importance, if they don’t change what is essential.

Later that summer, as rain fell, such a moment shimmered and paused on the brink, and then began the ancient dance of numbers: two, four, eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and a new life took root and...

She wants you to be a god,” I told him.”I know.” His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere.

when life becomes to much to handle, remember the one’s who make it all worth while.

Well, you ought to stick with it, even after you mess up-but sticking with it is a lot easier if you have a family who believes in you.

Adoption is grief in reverse.

…But would that be enough? Because at the moment it felt like it could never be enough. People needed more than a place to stay, more than a porch to sleep on. They needed a...

Would you marry you? Be the right person before seeking the right person. Solomon’s bride is carefully chosen for the good of his family, for the good of his kingdom.pg 9