I’m older now than my dad was when he was my age. Wait, that’s not right. That’s not my dad at all, that’s just some stranger hanging around in my memory.

I’d like to write a screenplay about my grandpa, and I’d like my future grandson to play the part. Talk about a mindfuck!

If I met a man who had eleven sons, the first thing I’d ask is, Are they all yours? And of course the next question I’d ask is, which one plays quarterback and which one...

I love you” can stop bleeding faster than a Band-Aid. It’s true. It worked for me after I stabbed my grandpa.

I want to be a dad. Sorry, I’m dyslexic. I meant to write dad.

Model the qualities that you want your children to show to each other.

Genes, I have learned, do not make a family. Families are the people that stick around through good and bad times. Sadness is a part of life. Choosing to be happy and see the glass...

But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me.

We stared at the odd garment and wondered what it was for. ‘What is it?’ asked Larry at length. ‘It’s a bathing costume, of course,’ said Mother. ‘What on earth did you think it was?’...

Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell. The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage...

Blood is thicker than water,”The young man saidAs he knifed his friendFor a drooling old bitchAnd a house full of lies.

Isn’t it sad that so often it takes facing death to appreciate life and each other fully?

There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure.

If you didn’t feel like your support system was strong enough, then getting yourself out of the situation was the best thing to do

I may have spent long enough in your orbit to have absorbed your ferocious conviction that a happy family cannot be a mere myth or that even if it is, better to die trying for...

you are the only woman I have ever met who I would want to be in a little house with, do you see? Other women make me want to get on boats and run away....

But they’re family, and you forgive them, even if they are human equivalent of hyenas. Because that’s what you do, Posey. Forgive.

For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain?

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit on the porch and...

When dancing with a pit bull, it’s always best to let him lead.

I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.

One probably hears about it.One, wire, recognizes.One holds her bones up next to each other.One insists, grinding the clutch.One would powder and powder.One would ask out of the back of the throat.One refuses.One is so...

My father is an apparition, and my mother is semiconscious.

I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-“”The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl.” He sounds bitter and sad.”If the world will not forgive me,” I say softly, “I...

The world is constantly evolving, while the family endeavours to stay the same. Updated, refurbished, modernised, but essentially the same. A house in the landscape, both shelter and prison.

i love playing and chatting with children…feeding and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled me throughout my…life. i like relaxing at the house, reading quietly,...

As our lives speed up more and more, so do our children’s. We forget and thus they forget that there is nothing more important than the present moment. We forget and thus they forget to...

I liked the fact that I could be who I wanted to be without my sister’s voice reminding me of who I had been.

If you can’t share what’s important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It’s all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.

Maybe becoming a spiritually healthy family is not about becoming a perfect family but rather following a perfect God together. And in doing so, to find peace with Him, our pasts, and our family members.

But wasn’t there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn’t seem fair.

Is that what love is all about? Needing them to come back to you when they’re away? To come home and keep you safe?

Life is a bit easier not worrying about the future of where the family is going to be or what is happening in the future.

YOU AND YOU ALONE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN HAPPINESS, NOT ANYONE ELSE

I will see you again,’ Hades promised. ‘I will prepare a room for you at the palace in case you do not survive. Perhaps your chambers would look good decorated with the skulls of monks.’...

I don’t think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It’s perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

Truth means facing denial and saying I know who I am, I know who I need to be and I’m not afraid to become that person no matter what…Never be without fear; but Letti, never...

my motheris pure radiance. she is the suni can touchand kissand holdwithout getting burnt.

My mother hasn’t asked the questions that a normal person would ask, and I’m grateful for it. It’s like the world has become so crazy that it makes sense to her now. I turn on...

It’s not blood that makes us who we are,” Dad said. “It’s family. And it’s not blood that makes us family. It’s love.

I need them and they need me to need them

When you choose to forgive the same people over and over again you do so because you don’t want to believe your time loving them was wasted. Bad relationships over time can become investments, that...

For me, family means the silent treatment. At any given moment, someone is always not speaking to someone else.’Really,’ I said.We’re passive-aggressive people,’ she explained, taking a sip of her coffee. ‘Silence is our weapon...

You can’t fight hatred with hatred and expect anyone to listen to you. You can only try to lessen it with humor, wit, truth and commonsense. If that doesn’t work run like hell, while they...

We have the ability to rise up and take control of our lives, if only we stop to pay attention to the warning signs that we so often find ourselves excusing and ignoring.

I am releasing my own demons of times gone by and seizing the opportunity to find my own corner, my own fortress, my own calm and peace. Life is not unfair.

Passion + Vision +Skill + Mentoring = Success.

You have to design your own price tag for the world.