Is there something wrong with you? Mentally?”Darlin’, you met my family. You’ve gotta be more specific than that.(Jess to Smitty)

Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.

I don’t think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they’re black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That’s what we’re upset about.

You can say that Lebanese has hundreds of lexemes for family relations. Family to the Lebanese is as snow to the Inuit.

I am filled time and againwith a heart-aching wonder when I thinkof the fireand frost of memoriesof the everlastingnessof lovethe solace of familyand the power of prayer.

Dude–she’s your wife.” He pointed to the locker where the Bible lay concealed. “God first, family second, country third.

Her family was a relay team racing toward Tomorrowland, but her father died, and in their shock they kept losing the baton.

There was one face that looked like another face before it and then another face that looked like the face before it. This went all the way back until the beginning of time. Who knew...

They do not love, that do not show their love.

Family,” she announced. “They’re the people in your life you don’t get to pick. The ones that are given to you,as opposed to those you get to choose.””You’re bound to them by blood,” she continued,...

When you blame others, what you are really saying is what is inside of you can’t be fixed, so you have no control of your own happiness. Therefore, you have made the conscience choice to...

Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can’t be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.

Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?

Smiling is not a choice, it’s a lifestyle. Pass it on.

Two powerful factors which creates difference between destroying your relationship and deepening it are EGO and Attitude

I was the first face you saw when you were born, you were bald as my hair ran black. Now yours the last face I saw before I died, your hair ran black, as I...

I know. When you kiss me, it’s like that for me, too.

Not that she means anything by it, he knows. This is simply her lifelong habit of moderation at work, her need to tamp everything down to the routine, the modest, the tepid everyday. He understands...

…bands fall out. But at the end of the day, they’re like family. You get back together because you have to, because you’re stronger together than you are apart.

Tobias loved her more than he’d loved anything—his family, his duty, even himself. There, perhaps, the Herondale blood ran true.

At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.

Together we gazed out over corkscrew switchbacks cut through a barren, rocky landscape stretching to the horizon. It was simultaneously awesome and insane to be in this spot as a family, though, for a flicker...

A Godly mother`s seed of faith yields a bounty of faithfulness.

There was nothing I wished I’d said to him. There was nothing I wished I hadn’t said.

Family was even a bigger word than I imagined, wide and without limitations, if you allowed it, defying easy definition. You had family that was supposed to be family and wasn’t, family that wasn’t family...

Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.

device” (as I have called it) was learned in part from a very young age from her parents.

How rude of me, we haven’t even introduced ourselves. We’re the Andersons. I’m Evan, the lovely size-zero lass in the floppy sun hat is my wife Amy, and these are our best friends/children, Evan and...

Joe closed his hand over the watch and it was still warm from his father’s pocket, ticking against his palm like a heart.

Born in the 90s and raised in a deserted rural area by a single mother with 2 brothers, a sister and a couple of cousins – you know; a normal Zulu family of the 21st...

I wanted her to have the full, long life that every parent promises his or her child by the simple act of bringing that child into the world.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

I’m not sure if I know any ‘functional’ families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don’t have a full range of problems.

I am called to minister to people and inspire them to do more not to advertise them and have them swell up with pride.

We wanted a family so bad, all of us. And we just grabbed each another and made us one. Simple as that.

Being real is being true to you.

A sister should set her brother up with one of her friends, unless her only friend is her sister.

Women were created gullible. It they weren’t no babies would be born.

Ironically, girls who don’t think so much about their family and are a little bit self-centred are not only happier themselves but also maintain good relationships with their families.

It doesn’t matter where you’re at, when you’re with people you love, you’re where you belong.

I’m an only child, so logically I gave birth to my parents, because if it weren’t for me they wouldn’t be parents at all, they’d simply be a married couple. (Or maybe without me they...

Being a parent is apparently more than most men can handle. This is transparent to even the tiniest child.

I’m the oldest of twelve brothers. However, the other eleven are yet to be born.

I found out who my real dad is on Facebook. I also found out who he isn’t. He isn’t the man I thought he isn’t.

I’ve misplaced it all, but I can’t seem to lose my brother. It’s a priceless gift–to have his love at a time when I’ve done nothing to earn it.

Make it your goal to employ the sweet speech that marks you as a wife after God’s own heart.

People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.

Maybe this is a second doctoral program: advanced learning about life, death, marriage, mothering, family, faith, patience, prayer. My degree will be ‘Doctor of Life,’ and I will be in good company. So many of...

They called each other family and that’s what they were—sisters. Many people in the world had family of the heart, kin by choice rather than by blood, and hers had come along in her darkest...

You’ve all been so sure that life is good that I’ve never been able to disbelieve it. Never will be able to.