Are you sure that we’re related?” Lydia asked. “I see no resemblance at all.

I never really grew up until I had kids.

You can never please everybody, don’t even try.

When a wise woman speaks, her words are gracious. Ask God to help you find words that speak life to those around you.

Before I can say I am, I was. Heraclitus and I, prophets of flux, know that the flux is composed of parts that imitate and repeat each other. Am or was, I am cumulative, too....

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

You are all members of the same family, bound by the Religion of Love.

Then she did something so unexpected Nico would later think he dreamed it. She walked up to Nico, who was standing to one side in the shadows, as usual. She grabbed his hand and pulled...

Dude, that sucks for you.

‘The image of you putting a condom on a banana to teach me about gay sex is forever ingrained in my head.’ ‘Well, a good father teaches his son about the facts of life.’ ‘You...

She serves me a piece of it a few minutesout of the oven. A little steam risesfrom the slits on top. Sugar and spice -cinnamon – burned into the crust.But she’s wearing these dark glassesin...

There are so many moments in our life which we cannot describe with mere words. There are not enough adjectives to justify the emotions behind such moments. Those moments are your life- they define who...

We are created for the sake of love. When we experience love in family life, it is heavenly, but it is still only an image of the greater glory we hope to behold in heaven.

At the end of the day, that’s what a family is – a group of different people who accept each other.

Hers was the kind of family that commissioned painters to immortalize its young: a background utterly alien to Strike, and one he had come to know like a dangerous foreign country.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

More often than not, people who are obsessed with their desires and feelings are generally unhappier in life vs. people that refocus their attention on service to others or a righteous cause. Have you ever...

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn’t even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality.

I knew right then and there that I would become as courageous as I needed in order to keep him safe. I thought of the soldiers and bullets that I hid from in Asmara. I...

The only goal in life is to be happy, genuinely, intensely and consistently , regardless of what it looks like to others.

MISUNDERSTANDING” arises only when you see the things with Closed Eyes

Unfortunately, some family members are so psychotic that no matter how hard you try to forge a healthy relationship, nothing will help. Now that you’re an adult, take refuge in the fact that some things...

When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you’re with me always.

Repudiating the vulnerability I felt had wrecked the lives of women around me, I modelled myself on my controlled father. I wanted his freedom and his focus. To him, a family was an aquarium: controlled,...

Most people don’t have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.

They seem nice, though, your sisters, really,’ Porcelain remarked.’Ha!’ I said. ‘Shows what little you know! I hate them!”Hate them? I should have thought you’d love them.”Of course I love them,’ I said…. ‘That’s why...

I was unrecognizable even to family. When Kim saw me she yelled,” That’s not Amy!” Just before she passed out.

There was once a king, and he had a queen; and he was the manliest of his gender, and she was the loveliest of hers. They had nineteen children, and were always having more.

Humans have evolved levels of cooperation that are unprecedented among primate species. You can see it even in babies. Say you are playing with a baby and begin to put the toys in a box....

Of course what I’m about to share isn’t true for me but…Friends, somebody said, are “god’s apology for relations.” (p. 129)

Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart.

Mungu ni mwingi wa hekima, lakini kwa nini alimuumba Shetani? Kwa sababu, Shetani wakati mwingine ni hekima. Ukiendelea kupigwa, bila wewe kupiga, unaweza kuumia, familia yako inaweza kuumia pia! Kuepusha matatizo ya familia yako, wakati...

And what if—what are you if the people who are supposed to love you can leave you like you’re nothing?

Fer medicinal purposes?”She could have summoned it by magic, but as she hurried back toward the crooked house, Harry knew that she wanted to hide her face.

The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.

This is home, it’s the only place I want to be, but at the same time everything familiar feels strange. It’s the same as it ever was except without the people who most belong here.

Memory is capricious. I can look back and see decadence, old bigots, the constant racial slurs, the bores, the wild cards, the bighearted, the family album of alcoholics, the saints, the old aunt propped in...

Someone could cut through the mess in our house and look at it like one might look at rings on a tree or layers of sediment. They’d find the black-and-white hairs of a dog we...

Whatever dream God gave to you is for the comfort of those God keeps around you!

The father’s job is to teach his children how to be warriors, to give them the confidence to get on the horse and ride into battle when it’s necessary to do so. If you don’t...

I do what I do because I am who I am. Don’t make me over.

This is who I am…and I am okay.” This is simple…not easy.

Can’t you imagine? Haven’t you told her about the place enough?” He tried the handle again, as if that could change anything. Meggie had covered the whole door with quotations. They looked to him now...

When one person got involved, it took everybody else along. I went to jail first, but my entire family soon joined the Movement. One time, Faith & I ended up at home w all the...

Abba, you may not like it, but what I’m doing is important. If you don’t agree, then I’m sorry. I can’t do anything about it.

Do you know I love you ?- I’m sure I don’t care whether you do or not !

I love hellos that last a lifetime, and goodbyes that are invisible, inaudible, and otherwise undetectable. Tell your mom I’m waving at her.

He was my distant cousin. Not only was he 50 miles away and 50 years away, but he was just very aloof.

I couldn’t have pulled it off if you hadn’t have pulled out all those years ago. So thanks, dad.