Two weeks ago, Aaron and Isaac, I learned your mother Laura has breast cancer. My heart feels impaled. These words, so useless and feeble. Laura is only thirty-five years old. Her next birthday will be...

He may be my half brother, but we’re not related. A chasm of incommunicable worlds lies between us.” (p. 70)

It always gave me a peculiar feeling to catch a glimpse of my parents’ lives before I was born.

If a man’s character is to be abused, say what you will, there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jaggedrocks. I only have these little glimmers that flicker and then...

When I behold other people, who are of course the children of some family or other, and think of my own children, and of myself…I am astonished at how sensible, well-behaved, practical, courteous, and predictable...

No more light answers. Let our officersHave note what we purpose. I shall breakThe cause of our expedience to the QueenAnd get her leave to part. For not aloneThe death of Fulvia, with more urgent...

Family isnt about blood relationships, its about the meaning behind them. I relize now that sharing chromosoms is not the only way to having a family, its about the friendship behind it.

Blame is a choice that doesn’t give you directions out of hell.

Good does not attract evil but the opposite, it fights to shine light on darkness.

A person can’t possibly live without the one person that gave them life.

Start wherever you are! Low hanging fruit really tastes as good as the high stuff.

Life is a do-it-yourself project.

People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers- a thirty-something old writer, who strangles words from dictionaries, and feeds on the decay of poetry.

I was a happy child. I felt loved. I never would’ve imagined that things would turn out the way that they did”.

The passive and overt violence waged against the women and children of the world must end.

Anyone hurts my family, I slap them down. A man does for family. That’s one of the rules I got from my pa. His rules for being a man.

He was perfectly capable of looking after himself, although after his marriage he had lost the knack for it. He missed the comfort of all the small things Charlotte did for him,but these were nothing...

The success of family welfare depends on giving women complete freedom with their lives. The need of the hour is that people should plan their families as per their convenience and get the bare minimum...

I saw the bruises, the burns, the cuts— I knew which ones had been done to you by someone you thought you could trust. Someone you thought loved you. I knew which ones you gave...

A virtuous mother sows and sows seeds of greatness with great life in mind.

Soon I will be older than him, but I’ll always chase him anyway, like a little sister, and always he’ll be running just along at the edges of things, and always he’ll be turning a...

I didn’t know what I wanted to Be…A sense that I had permanently botched things already, embarked on the trip without the map. and it scared me too, that I might end up as a...

Showing up is what counts.

How can you be a ‘Former-Father’? Is it possible to be a father but, because someone or something is determined to illegalize it, being a father becomes a thing of the past? Should you simply...

I felt like a trophy child, someone he had around to show off. It felt like it was more important that his daughter was perfect—but, I was his daughter and I was neither of those...

My mother has a gap betweenher two front teeth. So does Daddy Gunnar.Each child in this family has the same spaceconnecting us.

So, have a little fun. Soon enough you’ll be dead and burning in Hell with the rest of your family.

How do you look at your best friend the same way again when you know the flavor of his mouth?

Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood.

You Anglo-Saxons have largely broken away from such dependence on family. Each generation feels perfectly free to act alone and you are not afraid.

My dad had limitations. That’s what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.

Surrounded by people speaking a different language, our family started talking to each other. We drew into a very small tribe (population: four), who ate together, and squabbled together, and mostly played together. We learned...

Mature adults gravitate toward new values and understandings, not just rehashing and blind acceptance of past patterns and previous learning. This is an ongoing process and maturity demands lifelong learners.

A young nurse, someone new whom he didn’t recognise, came up to Henry and patted him on the arm. “Are you a friend or a family member?” She whispered the question in his ear, trying...