it was weird. Would you believe it if some supermodel called you up and told you she was your sister?’ Strike thought of his own bizarre family history. ‘Probably,’ he said.

Sometimes God doesn’t deny, he delays.

You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with...

Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back.

The lamp sizzled as it burned. It made everything seem close and safe, a little family circle they all knew and trusted. Outside this circle lay everything that was strange and frightening, and the darkness...

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

Nobody is a loser: Either he is a winner or a learner.

Rumah tangga tidak hanya dijalani dengan cinta, tapi juga akal sehat.

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother… Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

We often pity the poor, because they have no leisure to mourn their departed relatives, and necessity obliges them to labor through their severest afflictions: but is not active employment the best remedy for overwhelming...

I’m tired of being set upon by crazed Christians one minute and unbridled libertines the next. Girls, I’m going camping.

The Marine Corps is your family too. You may not have a mother here, but you have a shit pile of fathers, uncles, and brothers.

Embrace your beautiful mess of a life with your child. No matter how hard it gets, do not disengage… Do something—anything—to connect with and guide your child today. Parenting is an adventure of the greatest...

There is no such thing as a “broken family.” Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes...

Nearly all problems of human behavior stem from our failure to ensure that people live in environments that nurture their well-being.

I’d live anywhere, – in one room, in the castle ruin right now – if it meant we could all just be together.

When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.

Mungu alitengeneza familia. Alitengeneza koo, makabila na mataifa, ili watu wajuane na kuheshimiana.

Many parents have experienced the fact that kids don’t seem to honor their parents the way that previous generations of children did. The question we need to ask is, how did we get to this...

Harry… take my body back, will you? Take my body back to my parents…

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water–it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream. I was on the bottom...

The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don’t know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never...

You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies.

This was not a good idea coming home for Christmas. I’m too old. Years ago, coming back from schools or trips, I always expected some sort of new perspective or fresh insight about the family...

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.

No, I`m putting it away, trying to buy a house for my family. The goal is to use the money to move into a big house, so my daughter can have a garden.

When you journey inwardly exploring yourself, a sense of personal trust begins.

Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the...

No one’s family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office. Happiness is not a noun or verb. It’s a conjunction....

Together we shared a bond not even death would violate.

After a few years of not talking, I tried reaching out to my father, but by that time he was already a few inches beyond my outstretched fingers.

A town teeming with life. Full to overflowing. And every day, the good people counted their blessings. Every single one…

All my failures as a human being I blame on my father. Life is about accepting responsibility, and it’s time my father started being held accountable for my deficiencies.

In 1948 fishing was outlawed in Jacksonville by decree of the king. But nobody, besides my grandpa, listened to him, because he’d been dead for centuries—the king, not my grandpa. My grandpa had only been...

Rose leaned against the bathroom door. Here it was — her real life, the truth of who she was, barreling down on her like a bus with bad brakes. Here was the truth — she...

It’s all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.”Why are you saying that?”She might need permission to die, Cal.”I don’t want her to. She doesn’t have my permission.

exemplar, n.It’s always something we have to negotiate- the face that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I have something to live up to, and if I fail, I still have a...

Then the musical instruments appeared. Dad’s snare drum from the house, Henry’s guitar from his car, Adam’s spare guitar from my room. Everyone was jamming together, singing songs: Dad’s songs, Adam’s songs, old Clash songs,...

Even with my deepest soul I knew too well that all of these were just a stairs to heaven.

Maybe I’m deceiving myself. Perhaps I don’t know him as well as I’d like to imagine. What does a person so willing to utterly remake himself hold inside his heart? Can I trust such a...

The reason is obvious. You’re my grandfather, okay. Like it or not, you’re who you are and i’m who i am. And i’m here right now, so what are we going to do about it?...

All human happiness revolves around love. Love is central to the bonds on which a family is built.

Whether we like it or not, we need each other.

Coming back last time to the house she grew up in, Isabel had been reminded of the darkness that had descended with her brothers’ deaths, how loss had leaked all over her mother’s life like...

Fuck it… That’s really the attitude that keeps a family together, it’s not “we love each other”, it’s just “fuck it, man.

Since graduating from HMS my greatest satisfaction has unequivocally been my family. My main disappointment is that I have wasted too much time in personal pursuits and been less of an influence for good than...

What scared Stanley the most about dying wasn’t his actual death. He figured he could handle the pain. It wouldn’t be much worse than what he felt now. In fact, maybe at the moment of...