She could hear the voices and laughter coming from the yard, and she thought, really, this was the best part of any wedding, not the ceremony or the cake or the dancing but the downtime...

[I]n Africa I was a member of a family—of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven’t known for thousands of years. If gorillas were capable of such an expression, they would...

That’s what I’m doing with your father. I love him. So, honestly—just let it go already.

With the money I spend on alcohol, I could support a family of four, assuming they are all heavy drinkers.

In my final years in Green Bay, when I wasn’t getting the ball, people would ask me why I never complained.’Because these guys are my family,’ I would say. ‘I’m not selfish. It’s not about...

I only like bubble gum if it’s flavored like the bottom of my shoe. I once stepped on my stepdad, but he was dressed like a puddle so it’s not like I’m at fault.

A father and son walked into a bar, and the bartender didn’t serve either because the one didn’t look old enough. And he was right. Who becomes a dad in middle school?

Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

Love may start out as a good feeling, but to love someone long-term is an act of the will.

Had Elizabeth’s opinion been all drawn from her own family, she could not have formed a very pleasing picture of conjugal felicity or domestic comfort.

Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that’s the beauty of it, too.

You can’t raise happy kids in a happy family if you aren’t happy and don’t know who you are. You can’t pin your life on someone else’s happiness.

If we adopted Jack,” I quip, “we’d have to give him combat pay for an allowance

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

Once our family was very small and we used to say, ‘’our planet has enough resources to feed all of us’’ but today, we are not that family and it is a burden on our...

May our hearts be filled with great love for one another.

Now the snow’s coming down, and im watching it fall. Watching the people around, baby please come home. Pretty lights on a tree, and im watching you shine. You should be here with me! Baby...

Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as “our brother’s...

My mom was sitting at the kitchen table. She’d set her coffee down, making a noise that made me look her way. I’d begun to notice her less and less often, like her colors were...

Survivors often develop an exaggerated need for control in their adult relationships. It’s the only way they feel safe. They also struggle with commitment—saying yes in a relationship means being trapped in yet another family...

At that moment Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn’t know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with, and he reached out in order to meet her for...

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...