I’m a sex lover and fan of family reunions. Those two things are unrelated, just as all my sex partners are unrelated (at least to me).

My two parents represent the single greatest influence on my life. And if my dad had been there for me, it would be the double greatest influence on my life.

My dad taught me everything I know about being a man, and most of what I know about being a woman. The rest I had to learn from textbooks.

Dia adek yang paling gue sayang, yang kalau misalnya gue denger petir gede aja akan gue telepon buat nanya apa dia baik-baik aja.

I should name my future son after an orgasm sound. Not mine—his mother’s. It’d be silly to name him Eek, after my orgasm sound, because that’s his uncle’s name, and that’d be too confusing.

Have you been waiting in this line her whole life?

Everyone has always said I look like Bailey, but I don’t.I have grey eyes to her green,an oval face to her heart-shaped one,I’m shorter, scrawnier, paler, flatter, plainer, tamer.All we shared is a madhouse of...

I am not.” Jaccob took his hand out of his coat pocket, where he’d been reaching to check his police scanner or music player (he hadn’t decided which to use first).

One of the few things left in the world, aside from the world itself, that sadden me every day is an awareness that you get upset if Boo Boo or Walt tells you you’re saying...

Fame, infamy, they’re of the same family.

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful…

Daniel first kisses his brother in a town where no-one knows them, a no-account place that’s barely even a town, just some buildings clustered around the highway: a smoky bar, an empty motel, a convenience...

My feeling about in-laws was that they were outlaws.

I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.

If I had to wish for something, just one thing, it would be that Hannah would never see Tate the way I did. Never see Tate’s beautiful, lush hair turn brittle, her skin sallow, her...

I just want you to see out there, where it’s blue and wild and full of adventure. And then I want you to see in here, where there’s a warm yellow glow and your family...

You don’t want him for a reason. You want him because he’s your father.

(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.)(You are wrong. Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you...

Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you’re no longer their child.

When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets,” Papa would say, “she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.

We will not always be here, so let’s make the best use of what we have, when we still have it.

Meadow’s Waltz…the meadow had becomeher sanctuary of spiritoffering an escape from a painno child should ever endureforeboding clouds began…

The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.

And he doesn’t care what you’re wearing or what you’ve brought him. He just wants you there. Wanting him. And time is running out. He won’t love you unconditionally that much longer. And soon he...

The purpose of family is to preserve life,’ Aunt Patti said. ‘We treat family members the way we’re supposed to treat everyone on the planet.

Maybe this isn’t the right thing to say, but I want you to know: When you ran for the stage, I’ve never been so proud of you in all my life. You’ve always been beautiful;...

As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.

Children need to see that they are part of a history and that the story of their family is a living thing. God tells it, a new story in each generation, and each must hold...

Be it a house, be it a car or be it a little motorbike, there is always a place for the family!

If the whole world seems like it’s against you, it helps to know that you’ve still got home. A safe place. It just takes one person—a teacher, a friend, a parent. If I didn’t have...

All he wanted was enough time to consider all his options without being dragged into his household’s petty squabbles or being nagged by his wife about that damnable pilgrimage. Was that so much to ask?Apparently...

I’m not sure if I’ll be here when you get back. This place is a little—it’s a little much for me.”She didn’t have to tell him how it was. He had lived here for years,...

Being loved means; are disagreements welcome in my relationships? If you cant disagree with someone then you live in a tyranny and if you live in a tyranny then you are only loved to the...

And in that moment, Grace understood something that she would never forget: Home wasn’t just a building or an apartment with a roof and beds and chairs inside. Home was with her family, wherever they...

Because blood is blood, and every family has its own force.Its own flavor.Its own charm and strange.

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.

Trees are like people and give the answers to the way of Man. They grow from the top down. Children, like treetops, have flexibility of youth, and sway more than larger adults at the bottom....

We make families of our own, Travis whispered in my arms on the last night we spent together. It starts with you and me and then it spreads. And whatever happens, there’ll always be a...

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....

A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.

There’s no vocabulary For love within a family, love that’s lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech....

She’s the only younger sibling I have. If something happens to her, I don’t see any reason why should I keep alive on this freaking Earth!

I make myself keep on loving you, despite what you do. I’ve got to love you. We all have to love you, and believe inyou, and think you are looking out for our best interests....

This is George, my beloved George. D’you think I want to go to my grave knowing that at the moment of his trial he looked around and saw no one lift a finger for him?...

My dad was nothing but a bingo call.

Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as...

Well,’ she said, adjusting a pot lid, ‘I have my family of origin, which is you and Mom. And then Jaime’s family, my family of marriage. And hopefully, I’ll have another family, as well. Our...

You can find anyone that will tell you what you want to hear, but the only one worth valuing is the one that tells you what you need to learn.

Yes, I say. Three of these flying birds. I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight-toward my heart. One for each member of the family I left behind.

Ten universal values: (1) Show respect to each other—each person has a special gift; (2) Share what you have—giving makes you richer; (3) Know who you are—you are a reflection on your family; (4) Accept...