You’re good at love,” she said simply, because it seemed to her that it was true. “I’m not so good at love. I’m like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away.”He shrugged. “I...

But to mourn, that’s different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person.

so familiar that you slide back to the place where you fit.

You know those lists that get put together? ‘Top Ten Companies to Work For’ and that kinda thing? Yeah, you are so not helping this be one of those places.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

It has an L on it. L for love. See? It’s the key to the universe, Dad. You said you were looking for it. You told Mom you were. I found it for you so...

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried to see them off into life and hoped that the...

But what I do believe is that if you’re a girl who was born in Homsea, a girl who lives in a nothing kind of house with an ordinary kind of family, then you can’t...

Writers will happen in the best of families.

It seems like it has been forever. But i getbthe feeling that forever hasn’t even started yet.

Always remember when it comes to family arguments and disputes. “Blood is thicker than anger.

To get here had been painful, but for once in my life I felt free.

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

Considering our states of mind just the week before, it was hard to believe that the five of us could all be so free and happy, so uninhibited, and all dancing at once, but I...

If people are lucky enough to have family they should cultivate it. –A Prologue to Love

We are earthbound creatures, Maggie had thought. No matter how tempting the sky. No matter how beautiful the stars. No matter how deep the dream of flight. We are creatures of the earth. Born with...

The fights are always the same

It’s stupid, what keeps families apart

A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control.

The festive season isn’t just a time to teach children about Jesus and giving, it’s also a time to teach your children about those less fortunate. This year, encourage your children to pick a present...

Spoil all the walls with sellotape marks.

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.” Douglas MacArthur

It’s not like you’re becoming a born-again Christian or teetotal or an accountant or something you can stop being after a while. You’ll never not be a father now.”It feels great, Rob’ he said. ‘Just...

Families break up when they get hints you don’t intend and miss hints that you do.

Love doesn’t make the world go ’round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

When relationships fail it is usually because someone chooses not to show up for the battle.

Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she’s in sorrow.

It’s a commonly expressed and rather nice, romantic notion that we are all “sisters” and “brothers.”Let’s be real. Fact is, we might be better served to accept that we are all siblings.Siblings fight, pull each...

He sweeps her hair back from her ears; he swings her above his head. he says she is his émerveillement. He says he will never leave her, not in a million years.

Life is same for everyone. The difference is only that some are living by heart and some for only sake of living

All she wanted was a family, all he wanted was fame; as their relationship famished.

All i have to offer is this: i hold a valid driver’s license and I know the way to the hospital. I can hang curtains, flip a mattress, load a dishwasher. I can deliver a...

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