At a certain age our parents offhandedly start telling us things we’ve never heard before, about themselves and their families, their upbringing and history. They’re turning their lives into stories, trying to make sense of...

Checks are nice, but that’s not the only thing I want to live for. You gotta have your family too.

…there was alienation in the standing consciousness that his squareness would not fit the round hole that had been prepared for him.

… éramos suficientemente uma família. De dois. O elefante e a formiga. (…) semelhantes por dentro dos medos e dos sonhos, o lado mais difícil de coincidir com alguém.

I will always love my mother for who she is and everything she does.

We were there, together, and in the next room I could hear that monitor beeping. Keeping track of another heart’s beat and giving enduring, solid proof of our own.

Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope.

If there’s a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who’s trapped underground, I don’t know it.

They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.

Not everyone got a close family. Not everyone needed one.

The richest people in the world build networks and invest in people; everyone else looks for work and invests in survival.

Salvation is a family affair.

Nostalgia reaches into the past with both hands to grasp what is already gone and likely never will be again. Legacy reaches into the past with one hand to grasp what is teachable and passes...

They were not a family anymore. They were strangers. Tied together by chains, but they had rusted, and there was no hope for them to reconnect. Something had disappeared, and perhaps it was their sanity.

[Phoebe Broome] ‘Well,’ she said at last. ‘You’ve now met my father. At his worst.'[Lord Vladimir] ‘Being myself widely considered my family’s most difficult member, I would not presume to comment.”That is… gentlemanly of you.

Family is more than blood

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

Where can wego if not to each other,resenting every step?

Brothers and sisters should never be in the same family.

By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of solitude and search toward a greater sense of self-confidence. They glance at the world outside the family and with hardly...

In WASP families, if you don’t get along with someone, you have as little to do with them as possible. In Jewish families, you move next door, to make them as miserable as possible.

Let us live not only to serve God ourselves; let us live to help our children and their children live for God.

Akili yako isipokuwa timamu, familia itakushinda. Familia ikikushinda utalaumiwa na Mwenyezi Mungu.

Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

This is the opportunity the fellowship of Jiu Jitsu affords us. To reach our highest potential of self, and then to offer that self to another.

I think what a family is shouldn’t be so hard to see. It should be the one thing people know just by looking at you.

It was all about money. Dirty, bloody money. It can come and go so easily. They don’t see that life is what’s important. Love, friendship, trust, respect, a daily routine, someone to grow old with,...

We have flattered ourselves by inventing proverbs of comparison in matter of blindness,–“blind as a bat,” for instance. It would be safe to say that there cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat,...

Mama and I sat on a burping bus full of chickens in cages, and round-eyed babies on round mothers’ laps. (The Pinata-Maker’s Daughter)

Natalie was buried in the family plot, next to a gravestone that already bore her parents’ names. I know the wisdom, that no parents should see their child die, that such an event is like...

No, it really isn’t, but trust me, getting divorced and having to start over is the least in life that isn’t fair. I had to watch the parents of a way too young girl realize...

As a parent who raised his children in dysfunction, I know the parental wounds my children received were not intentional; often they were my best expression of love, sometimes coming out sideways, not as I...

Family, friends, music, love…are sweeteners that garnish and eases the stress of life

She expected a lot of me. When I was in fourth grade working on a book report, she made me start the whole thing over when she read it and said it was barely even...

All across the world, people are loyal to their tribe. — (Pirio)

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...