I’m the top of my class, auntie, thank you, and I am very good. And now let us have a little talk about you, aunt, dear. How much money have you got, and have you...

It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or...

If there is such a thing as depression and despair, I experienced it during the months leading-up to and following the divorce. Insomnia, constant and uncontrollable thoughts and a deep sense of loss were among...

I just wished they’d see Mari, their daughter. I wished they saw how much I liked art and how much I didn’t want to dedicate my life to something I wasn’t passionate about.

Growing up, Joe had adored his brother, Then he’d come to hate him. Now, he mostly didn’t think about him. When he did, he had to admit, he missed his laugh.

A man of God has many brothers. He is a wounded soldier – he is familiar with the pain one feels in his heart, as a close and loving brother, when a brother falls victim...

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.

I told my father I was his dad. But I lied. He’s adopted.

In Jacksonville, there are more childrenless children than fatherless children. Barely. But that’s one bad thing that’s actually a good thing.

Sister, why do you do that?””Do what?””Cage the animals at night?””Well…” She looked up and out through the barred window before answering me.”We don’t want to, Jennings, but we have to. You see, the animals...

we must take care of our families wherever we find them.

Families that feel together, heal together.

Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is a relentless force. Faith is relentless force. The human spirit is relentless, and...

I’m going home to an old country farmhouse, once green, rather faded now, set among leafless apple orchards. There is a brook below and a December fir wood beyond, where I’ve heard harps swept by...

Marriage isn’t about Winning – It’s about Lasting

Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets.

When you marry someone, you marry their entire family.

Small Acts of Kindness are Priceless

They were my family, yet they were strangers.

He was taking a leap here, negotiating with a crackhead, under the table, in a dark cantina. The courage etched on his face came from loving Aidia so much he’d close his eyes and walk...

And how can you say I love you to someone you love?I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you,...

The man and husband of the household is responsible for the way your family’s income is managed.

Can the child who is Dell; be the outer emoodiment of man’s quest to save himself? To cure himself?…Or, to “be” himself?

I don’t have to tell you I love you. I fed you pancakes.

You want to know what I want? I’m sick of being a guinea pig. I’m sick, but I’m never f*cking sick enough for this family.

Do close your mouth. You look like a cow that’s being artificially inseminated.

Aliena’s brother, Richard, sometimes reminded her of her father, with a look or a gesture, and that was when she felt a surge of affection.

I ran, and I just kept running.I wasn’t going to stop until I got back to my family; I wasn’t going to stop until I got home.

The problem in today’s economy is that people are typically starting a family at the very time they are also supposed to be doing their best work. They are trying to be productive at some...

Family, can’t live with them, can’t orbitally bombard them back to the foul, oozing proto-plasma they crawled out of, I thought grimly.

If we will build righteous traditions in our families, the light of the gospel can grow ever brighter in the lives of our children from generation to generation. We can look forward to that glorious...

You do love him,” I said, and she swung her gaze back to me.”I do.” She smoothed her hand over her thighs, flattening imaginary wrinkles from the linen.”Even though he’s not your family.”Saylor laughed, a...

Your friends love you for who you are. Your family loves you for what you are.

Your life have to be filled with interesting tales that it should not bore your grandchildren, when you tell them someday.

What what,” Trapis said as he hurried over to tend to her, his bare feet slapping on the floor. “What what. Hush hush.

Have I added to their building blocks, shoring them up with strength and their own magnificence? Have I shown them enough color? Did I let them have enough ice cream and leave them alone enough...

For three days and three nights, Phædrus stares at the wall of the bedroom, his thoughts moving neither forward nor backward, staying only at the instant. His wife asks if he is sick, and he...

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....