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....

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

You are all members of the same family, bound by the Religion of Love.

Then she did something so unexpected Nico would later think he dreamed it. She walked up to Nico, who was standing to one side in the shadows, as usual. She grabbed his hand and pulled...

Dude, that sucks for you.

‘The image of you putting a condom on a banana to teach me about gay sex is forever ingrained in my head.’ ‘Well, a good father teaches his son about the facts of life.’ ‘You...

She serves me a piece of it a few minutesout of the oven. A little steam risesfrom the slits on top. Sugar and spice -cinnamon – burned into the crust.But she’s wearing these dark glassesin...

There are so many moments in our life which we cannot describe with mere words. There are not enough adjectives to justify the emotions behind such moments. Those moments are your life- they define who...

We are created for the sake of love. When we experience love in family life, it is heavenly, but it is still only an image of the greater glory we hope to behold in heaven.

At the end of the day, that’s what a family is – a group of different people who accept each other.

Hers was the kind of family that commissioned painters to immortalize its young: a background utterly alien to Strike, and one he had come to know like a dangerous foreign country.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

More often than not, people who are obsessed with their desires and feelings are generally unhappier in life vs. people that refocus their attention on service to others or a righteous cause. Have you ever...

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn’t even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality.

Careers are not made in a family business, they are born – by patricide. Then they die from neglect, and avoid the tragedy of being put out of business.

Life is too short to be anything but happy. So kiss slowly. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Take chances and never have regrets. Forget the past but remember what it taught you.

And she looked upon the mirror that was given as a gift. She hated everything about it, from the circular size of it, to the color, and the wooden frame that held it in place....

How I love them. How good they are. They endure endless hours of me talking about the future. They keep me near and at the same time bid me farewell. That is what real love...

There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing with the rapidity of stops on an instrument, the quiet...

One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and...

I’m going to be a person who writes stories.I never told mom and dad how much I loved them.I wanna be someone who can tell a lot of people how much I love them.

Orang takkan pernah terlalu sibuk untuk memahami asalnya. –Nenek

For what its worth, you’re good for him,” he said.Healther looked up at him, surprised.Von’s green gaze held hers. “Family,” he said. “It all comes down to who has your back when your tires are...

I do not dance,’ said Jean-Claude, who had forsworn that exercise for much the same reasons as Miss Stevenson.But here he spoke too soon, for Lady Dorothy Bingham, merciless to what she called ‘ballroom skulkers’,...

WE ARE the creators of the seeds that we have planted in the past — whether they were happiness, comfort, abundance, prosperity, family, children, ideas, or even thoughts — that are giving birth into our...

In Africa, there is a birthrate trap: a higher standard of living will lead to smaller families but smaller families will not lead to a higher standard of living.

All I can tell you is that every family on the planet is dysfunctional and we celebrate occasions as generously as we know how to do. We are all doing our best to appear grateful...

The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.

When Tito was born, I was writing my fifth novel. That was how I saw my future: living in Venice and jumping from novel to novel. Tito’s birth changed all that.

The smallest a family can be is two members, and that was Jules and me.

I don’t have to look up my family tree, because I know that I’m the sap.