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Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.

Many a family tree needs trimming

I can’t help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds.

Englishmen who came here had the spirit of close kinsmen in all they did; often were blood related and moved from place to place in clans strengthened by civic and ecclesiastical covenants.

Friendship is not by force but by choice.You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody.

Tidak ada perasaan yang bertahan selamanya. Aku belajar itu dari Papa. Cepat atau lambat, sesuatu yang kita miliki akan hilang dan yang tertinggal kemudian cuma rasa benci.

And when he got home he started on Mumma. He hated her then, because in her fatness and untidiness and drabness she reminded him of what he himself was when he was sober.

It isn’t, really. Just pick what you like.” I like crystal-blue. Luckily, I didn’t say those words aloud.

The Jews have a saying worth remembering: “Whoever doesn’t teach his son some trade or business, teaches him to be a thief.” As soon as ever I can, I will make my children apprehensive of...

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....

Where I come from, family’s defined as those who don’t screw you over a paycheck. Blood makes no difference. If you can trust them with your life and know that they’ll be there come whatever...

How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in...

I was about to say that we all hurt the ones we love. That we can’t help it and that for some reason, we’re just defective like that. Maybe because those we love most bring...

a father for whom everything is an unshakable duty, for whom there is a right way and a wrong way and nothing in between, a father whose compound of ambitions, biases, and beliefs is so...

a place where the person you least want to live with always lives.” His definition applies equally to the group that gathers each Thanksgiving and the group that congregates each Sunday morning. (p. 64-65, Church:...

[Robert’s eulogy at his brother, Ebon C. Ingersoll’s grave. Even the great orator Robert Ingersoll was choked up with tears at the memory of his beloved brother]The record of a generous life runs like a...

True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back to your critics because they need it more than you do.

Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.

Doing evil to another person doesn’t prove your love and loyalty to another person; it proves your significant other wants you to walk away from the light because they are lonely living in the dark.

I’ll be your family now,” he says. “I love you,” I say. (….)He stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms for stability as he considers his response. He frowns at me....

You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn’t depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or...

To be successful in life, plan, implement, revise, update, and build on change.

TAKE Risk because you never know how absolutely perfect something could turn out to be..

Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.

Feminist movement is pro-family.

They be marching hand in hand, like going to war.

The Wife Of Ted Wickham”)

…; Clary saw the group of lycanthropes look up, alert as a group of hunting dogs senting game. She turned- And saw Luke, tired and bloodstained, coming through the double doors of the Hall. She...

I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!

Our pets are our family.

An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course; always charting new course for her loved ones.

I suppose it must be admitted that I was raised in a “dysfunctional” family, but in truth, I do not think I had any sense of that as I was growing up. Probably part of...

I wanted to see my family, but didn’t want to leave the other guys. The people waiting for us were strangers, even though I knew every last one of them.

I had always thought of home not as a house, or even a place, but a feeling of safety and acceptance, a warm light when the rest of the world was a dark, forbidding place.Whenever...

You cannot begin to understand the failure of marriage—or the living of these ideas commitment or covenant—without considering and factoring in the devaluing of fatherhood. The two are inextricably linked and dependent.

She looked at him, his soft brown eyes and tall form, and contemplated raising herself on her toes and kissing his ear, or his cheek…Instead, impulsively before leaving, she reached up and smoothed his mussed...

Do not measure the number of tragedies you suffer, quantify the success derived from the.

For Saffron,” it said in shaky old writing on the damaged base, and on the other side, “Saffy’s angel.”Saffron, picking up the broken fragments one by one, said it didn’t matter. She hugged Rose and...

He doesn’t have to love your CD collection. He doesn’t have to love your shoes. But any good, mature guy better make an attempt to love your friends and family—especially when they’re great.

As we get older, it matters less where you are and more who you’re with.

I’ve often lost faith in myself, I’ve never lost it in my family

My grandpa died yesterday. I ought to know, because I shot him. So come, join me in the fight against patricide by killing your father’s father.

When you were in the hospital, dying, I called your mom. I didn’t tell her you were gravely ill, but we did have phone sex.

Life is this simple ~ birth, eat, drink, play, explore, and relate to family and friends; be happy and enjoy life…!

I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pilllow.

Honest, hopelessly romantic old-fashioned gentleman seeks lady friend who enjoys elegant dining, dancing and the slow bloom of affection.

The world is harsh and inconsiderate, and you can rely only on your family.

Her vagina feels like home, while her sister’s vagina feels like a hotel room. I should ask for a late checkout.