My mother is the antithesis of a typical Jewish mother, she is very soft-spoken and takes more naps that a cat. As a result, I’ve always longed for someone to really annoy the shit out...

One of your three mothers did the cooking? How traditional,”Naomi said with a smirk.

The family is the cradle of the world’s misinformation.

The wisest thing my grandpa ever said to me before he died was “Stop!” Thinking back, I don’t know if he was talking to me or the car that ran him over. I prefer to...

The simplest way to enjoy lasting success in life is to strike a balance between your career and family. If one must suffer, never it be your family.

Making amends is not only saying the words but also being willing to listen to how your behavior caused another’s pain, and then the really hard part…changing behavior.

To be surrounded by sixty people who make your life miserable is to be at a family reunion. But to be surrounded by 600,000 people who make the whole world miserable is to live in...

I had a dream about you. Dinner for two turned into dinner for three when you told me you were pregnant. I was excited, but a little nervous, because we were at a fancy restaurant...

Bloodlines and last names didn’t make a man extraordinary — the extraordinary existed in what we did in life, not in who we were.

He (God) never promises that our families will be safe. Not in the way we think. He does promise his presence, though.

Not only am I not my dad’s favorite child—I’m his only child.

Some people say I look like my mom, while others say I look more like my dad. I guess it all depends on what I’m wearing.

People do that too. Their hair changes color as they age.” I remember that as my grandpa got older, his hair went from green to yellow to red, like a traffic light, only with slightly...

I’ll give you the mother-in-law discount—200% of the 50% off sales price.

Without the family, we are helpless before the State.

Events had been set in motion whose echo would be heard a thousand and more generations from now.

I was seventeen, halfway toward eighteen, and I had learned something nobody had ever taught me: Once you get to a certain age, especially if a driver’s license is involved, you can go a whole...

She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. ‘You still have a family,’ she whispers.

Time is a river, and it flows in a circle. I love you.

He felt lighter than he had in weeks, and he realized that the monster he had been running from wasn’t really a monster after all. It was simply that place in the heart that holds...

We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers.

The point is, you have family and friends who love you. You have a world out there just waiting for you to conquer it. You have a life that will be anything you make it....

Two things we have no control:The family in which you were born it to and the name you were given at birth.

I’d written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one’s own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I’d made a habit–and eventually a profession–of...

There is nothing greater in this world then love. Many things in this world have limits and expiration dates, but love is constant and everywhere. More important, it can take many forms and even when...

Not only had my brother disappeared, but–and bear with me here–a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could...

Losing your family… it puts fear in a different perspective, Chase had once told me.

Before you were conceived, I wanted you. Before you were born, I loved you. Before you were an hour, I would die for you. This is the miracle of love.

Maybe children just want whatever it is they don’t get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted, be it silence or information, affection or independence–so that child, in turn, craves...

Because I think people must be the same everywhere. Only these people are in my bones.

After a certain age, and even if we develop in quite different ways, the more we become ourselves, the more our family traits are accentuated.

In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that.

E qualsiasi sogno di aiutare la nostra gente rischia di essere parimenti un ermafrodito travestito se non si prepara un progetto per darci tutto il conforto e la compagnia delle famiglie allargate, all’interno delle quali...

I watched, hoping she wouldn’t come out too broke. It’s all you can do for people sometimes, no matter how much you love them.

Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.