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The magic had started to degrade, and Rosemary had slowly but surely become thoroughly, gruesomely human. And there were few things worse in this world than humans.
— Krystal Sutherland, A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares
What if I took the picture books that my grandmother made and snapped open the rings in every binder, let the plastic pages spill out onto the floor, and then attacked them with my scissors?Those books, pasted together by my grandmother, year after year, replaced the cognitive exercise of memory for me. Sitting on a section of wall-to-wall carpeting, drinking the bubbling red birch beer from a tinted brown glass, I reestablished my relationships with the members of my family. This is where I put it all together and perpetuated the lies. Not malicious lies, but lies with so many years to develop that we forgot the truth because nobody rehearsed it. When Mark was sentence to sixty days in a twelve-step rehab program in 1991, he wrote an inventory of his experiences with drugs and alcohol that filled a whole notebook, and then he gave it to us to read, It was in those pages that I learned he had once tapped the powder out of horse tranquilizer capsules, melted it down, and shot it into his veins for a high that lasted fourteen days. My God, I thought, Oh my God. This is Mark's story? Okay, now put the cooked-down shot-up horse tranquilizer against the pictures in the album. What do you get? Collage. Dry made wet and introduced into the body. Cut cut cut. It's not so radical.
— Jill Christman, Darkroom: A Family Exposure
Stories shared in your kitchen will strengthen your family than the stories shared your bedroom
— Kenneth Mahuka
Every single thing can change for the better, no matter however hard it is. Even a family in utter poverty can become prosperous in a couple of generations.
— Tarun Sharma
It's just, there's something compelling about very beautiful people. Especially strong-jawed men with stubble and intense eyes. You fall under their spell and believe anything they say.
— Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic to the Rescue
Buy calmly and with meaning.
— Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic to the Rescue
People move on. Friendship end.
— Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic to the Rescue
You can Cut Back or you can Make More Money
— Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic to the Rescue
People change. Life changes. It's the way of the world. Maybe it's meant to be.
— Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic to the Rescue
The other person always has a point, Listen to each other, and you'll hear it.
— Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic to the Rescue
Some things are private. I mean, we're grown-ups now. You don't share everything.
— Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic to the Rescue
A friend is a family.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The truth is, I have gay dads and I’m not damaged. I grew up with an incredible and loving family that always provided for me when I was younger and has continued to guide and support me as I’ve grown older.
— Natalie   Perry
...Going into the unknown means returning to the known is a bewitching sweetness. Adventure doesn't always require a sturdy backpack.
— Tsh Oxenreider
I asked my dad, “If we were going to have two dads, should we call you Dad Number One and Dad Number Two?
— Natalie   Perry, Dad #1, Dad #2: A Queerspawn View from the Closet
It’s worth noting my family doesn’t use the word step regarding anyone who’s married into our family. Jerry isn’t, nor has he ever been, my step-dad. His mom isn’t my step grandma: neither are my aunts, uncles, or cousins. While there was never a discussion regarding how we categorize or title our family, we all just understood that for us, we are all simply family.
— Natalie   Perry, Dad #1, Dad #2: A Queerspawn View from the Closet
Ultimately, the one thing that makes a family is love.
— Natalie   Perry, Dad #1, Dad #2: A Queerspawn View from the Closet
For those of us who are told our families are wrong, we can question more strongly what we believe is right.
— Natalie   Perry, Dad #1, Dad #2: A Queerspawn View from the Closet
What I don’t understand is how some people say they can recognize the necessity to provide people with equal treatment under the law but they say it only applies in certain situations. People still use their religion and morality as an excuse to deny services to those perceived as other.
— Natalie   Perry, Dad #1, Dad #2: A Queerspawn View from the Closet
We can’t say it’s justifiable to deny some people their rights because we personally find something offensive. People have the right to their beliefs and they have the right to think that homosexuality is wrong, but they don’t have the right to use their religion and their beliefs to deny the rights of others.
— Natalie   Perry, Dad #1, Dad #2: A Queerspawn View from the Closet
Our family had waited so long for this moment and had spent so many years being told we were undeserving of this basic right. But for me there was a sense of validation because after eighteen years, I was finally able to stand with my two dads when they legally wed.
— Natalie   Perry, Dad #1, Dad #2: A Queerspawn View from the Closet
People have the right to their opinions. But I also have the right to my family. No one in our country should be put in the situation where they grow up in fear because our society has decided some people are valued less than others.
— Natalie   Perry, Dad #1, Dad #2: A Queerspawn View from the Closet
My dad looks like Clint Eastwood. His half-Scottish, half-German face in repose is handsome but terrifying. I searched the audience for him during the sixth-grade chorus concert and, seeing his stern expression, was convinced that he had seen me messing up the words to the Happy Days theme and that I was in big trouble. I spent the rest of the concert suppressing terror bumps, only to be given a big hug and a kiss afterward. It took me years to realize, Oh, that's just his face.
— Tina Fey, Bossypants
Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it's worthwhile to face it occasionally. The further we push aloneness away, the less are we able to cope with it, and the more terrifying it gets. Some philosophers believe that loneliness is the only true feeling there is. We live orphaned on a tiny rock in the immense vastness of space, with no hint of even the simplest form of life anywhere around us for billions upon billions of miles, alone beyond all imagining. We live locked in our own heads and can never entirely know the experience of another person. Even if we're surrounded by family and friends, we journey into death completely alone.
— Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
And though our roots belong to the same tree, our branches have grown in different directions.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Just as when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.
— Cecelia Ahern, The Year I Met You
But you are proof that you can think you know someone yet never really know them at all.
— Cecelia Ahern Ahern, The Year I Met You
For me, the sea was a great comfort, Pilar. But it made my children restless. It exists now so we can call and wave from opposite shores.
— Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban
Maybe you're not difficult to live with at all, maybe you're just a busy, successful, beautiful woman who won't settle for anything but the best.
— Cecelia Ahern Ahern
Look, you had it easier than me,' she says. 'You think Nana and Papa were busy supporting women's rights? No, they wanted me to meet a nice man and get married and cook and clean for him and give them grandchildren, and that's it. You were born into a world where feminism existed and was readily available to you. I had to acquire that knowledge. I didn't know I could be on my own.
— Jami Attenberg, All Grown Up
Miracles only grow where you plant them.
— Cecelia Ahern Ahern, The Year I Met You
They (parents) have been doing this (imposing their beliefs about life on you) since you were born. That’s more than enough to establish a habit.
— Lukasz Laniecki, You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes
She told me that she loved me. She told me that everything would be okay. She told me to let go
—  so I did.
She laughed a bit at the simple beauty of it all - the white paper, the elegant arc, the soft green grass; and, beside her, the purple backpack, Grandad's golden straw hat, the sky a pale-blue umbrella embracing the whole town
— Peter Carnavas, The Elephant
Two people who know they do not understand each other, breeding children whom they do not understand and who will never understand them.
— T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party
We have overcome heartaches by being kind to others and by supporting each other.
— Carla Reighard, Elle's Magical Shoes
that kid may not carry my DNA, but by God, I don’t care. I love that little shit like my own and I want to be his daddy.
— Heather M. Orgeron, Boomerangers
Billy covered his head with his blanket again. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental ward - always got much sicker until she went away...She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
I'm responsible. I chose to put myself in a situation where I'm responsible, wanting to look after her, a small, dependent, vulnerable creature. It's innate and I don't even have to think about it. It's like breathing -- for some people.
— Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
We are all lost, so lost, vulnerable and insecure. We are separated from love at birth, we are separated from God, from each other. All we want, all we yearn for is to connect.
— Kamand Kojouri
In real life I fell easily under the spell of all traveling artists. En route to New Orleans, entertainments of many kinds would stop over in those days for a single performance in Jackson's Century Theatre. Then, as now, my imagination was magnetized toward transient artists - toward the transience as much as the artists. I must have seen "Acrobats in a Park" at the time I wrote the story as exotic, free of any experience as I knew it. At the center of the little story is the Zorro's act: the feat of erecting a structure of their bodies that holds together, interlocked, and stands like a wall. Writing about the family act, I was writing about the family itself, its strength as a unit, testing its frailty under stress. I treated it in an artificial and oddly formal way; the stronghold of the family is put on view as a structure built each night; on the night before the story opens, the Wall has come down when the most vulnerable member slips, and the act is done for. But from various points within it and from outside it, I've been writing about the structure of the family in stories and novels ever since. In spite of my uncompromising approach to it, my fundamental story form might have been trying to announce itself to me.
— Eudora Welty, On Writing
Children are God's gift.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You don't have to change yourself to meet the expectations of others. CIOs who not only accept you, but celebrate you for who you are. Give your time and energy to the ones committed to truth, the brave souls working toward a life of authenticity. Let that be your tribe, and you their family. Open yourself to connections formed from a pledge to be real.
— Scott Stabile
Home is home.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You cry in your room. I cry in my room. Mom cries in Mom's room. And in the morning everyone pretends like they never cried once in their life.
— Natasha Friend, Perfect
Anyone who ever makes you the slightest bit uncomfortable, Breanna, you tell one of us. You're with Razor, which means you're family.
— Katie McGarry, Walk the Edge
There are orphanages," he exclaimed to himself, "for children who have lost their parents--oh! why, why, why, are there no harbours of refuge for grown men who have not yet lost them?
— Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
We were never very demonstrative in our family; poor folk who toil and are full of cares are not so. It is not their way to protest what they already know. When my mother says to me "dear boy," it means much more than when another uses it.
— Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Here I sit and there you are lying; we have so much to say, and we shall never say it.
— Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
I was strong from losing them, maybe, but any goodness in me came from having them." (p. 124)
— Dan Gemeinhart, Some Kind of Courage
My mother likes odd numbers and is suspicious of the even ones. She reads a new book every week and is bewitched by black holes in the universe. She describes herself as an optimist but she worries about everything—worries incessantly—worries on behalf of others when she feels they are not worrying adequately for themselves.And my mother misses her own mother, my grandmother, immensely, who only has a past now; who is only allowed to be as we remember her.
— Sara Baume, A Line Made by Walking
Ashlynn washed her face, put on an apron, and then opened wide the door to her shoe closet. This princess wouldn't care if she wore a burlap sack every day, so long as she had dozens of footwear choices. Today she settled on a pair of scrappy teal wedges and went to start breakfast. Even though her father's grand house came fully stocked with servants, her mother believed in good, solid, character-forming chores. After all, Ashlynn would inherit her mother's story and become the next Cinderella someday, and there would be lots of floors to mop and hearths to sweep her Happily Ever After.
— Shannon Hale, Once Upon a Time: A Story Collection
Spending time with mama is the best time I ever spent other than remembering Mighty Allah.
— Irfa Rahat
There are family mysteries I cannot solve. There are family mysteries I am unwilling to solve.
— Sherman Alexie, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
It wasn't that you could take them for granted, as such - heaven knows, nothing can be taken for granted in this life - it was simply that you would know, almost unthinkingly, that they'd be there if you needed them, no matter how bad things got.
— Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
When the puppy licked my hand, we all knew he was the one for us
— J. Wesley Porter, A Spiritual Dog: "Bear"
They (parents) use this guilt-tripping to stop you from fulfilling your plans, but most important, from believing something they don’t (something which contradicts their beliefs)
— Lukasz Laniecki, You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes
Never sacrifice your children for the bigger house, fancier car or the 'better life'. The price you pay is hefty and non-refundable in the end.
— Sotero M Lopez II
Home is the people who love you.
— Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood
Home isn't a place. It's not having a bed to come home to, or a yard, or a Christmas tree at the holidays. Home is the people who love you.
— Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood
On Love - Love without trust is the love you give a dog. You may call that cute little mutt a member of the family but you don't let him in the kitchen when there's a roast on the table.
— Marsha Hinds
Well, did anything interesting happen today?' [my father] would begin. And even before the daily question was completed I had eagerly launched into my narrative of every play, and almost every pitch, of that afternoon's contest. It never crossed my mind to wonder if, at the close of a day's work, he might find my lengthy account the least bit tedious. For there was mastery as well as pleasure in our nightly ritual. Through my knowledge, I commanded my father's undivided attention, the sign of his love. It would instill in me an early awareness of the power of narrative, which would introduce a lifetime of storytelling, fueled by the naive confidence that others would find me as entertaining as my father did.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin, Wait Till Next Year
Our herd may roam, but we all know where is home.
— Maria V. Snyder, Dawn Study
They (parents) want life to unfold according to what they believe. Most people want that. The last thing they want and need, is somebody (let alone their own child) telling them that their beliefs about life are bullshit / full of holes/ severely flawed.
— Lukasz Laniecki, You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes
They may love you', she whispered, 'but they'll never understand.
— Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
To the members of my family who are no longer with us, I’d like to say I’m sorry. There is a quote by Stephen Dunn I’ve always loved; he says, “Our parents died at least twice, the second time when we forgot their stories.” I hope by remembering your stories, the good and the bad, you can forgive me for sharing parts of your lives you may have wished to have kept private.
— Kenny Porpora, The Autumn Balloon
Her eyes opened at this sight against her will and she looked around the room almost in fear. But it was dark and shadowy, shaded by the bamboo screen at the door, the damp rush mats at the windows, the old heavy curtains and the spotted, peeling walls, and in their shade she saw how she loved him, loved Raja and Tara and all of them who had lived in this house with her. There could be no love more deep and full and wide than this one, she knew. No other love had started so far back in time and had had so much time in which to grow and spread. They were really all parts of her, inseparable, so many aspects of her as she was of them, so that the anger or the disappointment she felt in them was only the anger and disappointment she felt at herself. Whatever hurt they felt, she felt. Whatever diminished them, diminished her. What attacked them, attacked her. Nor was there anyone else on earth whom she was willing to forgive more readily or completely, or defend more instinctively and instantly. She could hardly believe, at that moment, that she would Iive on after they did or they would continue after she had ended. If such an unimaginable phenomenon could take place, then surely they would remain flawed, damaged for life. The wholeness of the pattern, its perfection, would be gone.She lay absolutely still, almost ceasing to breathe, afraid to diminish by even a breath the wholeness of that love.
— Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day
There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choose to farm choose for love.
— Wendell Berry
It’s safer/ easier to follow the script and complain how broken some things are in that script, than to attempt to change those things.
— Lukasz Laniecki, You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes
We could be having a good or a bad day and Bear would give you a warm greeting that could melt your heart
— J. Wesley Porter, A Spiritual Dog: "Bear"
Another item that appeared in the backyard was rabbits. Bear would chase them away.
— J. Wesley Porter, A Spiritual Dog: "Bear"
If we are wonderful parents and family members, then there’s really nothing else to prove.
— Ron Baratono, The Writings of Ron Baratono
The Cobalt Empire is the largest, known for their regal poise, intellectual prowess, and fierce commitment to one another. Each Cobalt is prideful and passionately unique but when push comes to shove.They'll band together like an army of one.
— Becca Ritchie, Damaged Like Us
Let's go kick som
— Becca Ritchie, Damaged Like Us
We are all entitled to our own share of mistakes and learning experiences in life. No one should take them away from us. Not even our parents.
— Lukasz Laniecki, You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes
After all, once there was a girl named Lucy who loved her family, old and new.It's not the type of love that ends.
— Emery Lord, The Names They Gave Us
A friend is a favourable family.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Real relations are not what we make. It's what time makes.
— Karishma Magvani
There is no better way to crush someone’s self-confidence than to tell this person that her / his choice was wrong, and that she / he should have listened to us (parents). Because, obviously, we know how to make the right choices and she / he does not.
— Lukasz Laniecki, You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes
Tom,"said Eric," just yesterday, you were a complete stranger to us! Now, you are part of our lives!
— Abdelouahab Hammoudi, The Golden Nightingale
To be quite frank, I don't know nor understand how one can stand up and say I'm a 'perfect father'! I reckon myself to be a great dad in my children's eyes and maybe the kids I interact with just by passing by and cracking a few jokes that eventually put a smile on their faces. I call myself a 'great dad' cause my CREATOR chose me to bring an innocent and beautiful life to this world because the Heavens above believed that: 1. I'd never compromise my child's happiness over anything or anyone! 2. I'd do whatever possible, within reason of course to ensure that my son sees LOVE, HOPE, FAITH, HAPPINESS, LAUGHTER, OPULENCE, THE HEAVENS and definitely a FATHER whenever he looks at me or through my eyes! 3. I'm a GREAT-DAD until my children say otherwise.
— Katlego Semusa
She felt lately as though she had served her purpose, done her job, and been dispensed with, not only by her children, but by her husband as well.
— Danielle Steel, Answered Prayers
Our parents are not the only people on this planet, and we should not base our life choices on what they want (what will bring them a peace of mind, satisfaction, and give them a reason to brag), but we should make those choices keeping in mind that there are upwards of 7,5 billion people in this world, and that we should use our talents and energy trying to improve the lives of as many of them as possible.
— Lukasz Laniecki, You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes
As a family, we love, we share, we play, we laugh, we fight, we are frank about the truth and we live.
— ANIKOR Daniel
He listens when I talk.
— Gwenda Bond, Triple Threat
Who said that parents’ beliefs should be adopted by their children?
— Lukasz Laniecki, You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes
And though I had misgiving--obvious ones, too--one overwhelming thing drove me on: on the borderlands, my father would need me as much as I'd need him. That's what made me so blindly ready to go off with him. What boy doesn't wait his whole childhood to walk alongside his father on equal terms?
— Peter Geye, Wintering
There are so many similarities between [my father] and me, I can see that. But what I think really scares me are the countless ways I'm not like him. And because the past is getting farther and farther behind me, and the end coming closer and closer, I'm afraid I'll never meet the man in myself that I saw in him.
— Peter Geye, Wintering
Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking.
— Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary
We drank coffee. We talked. She loved Charles Dickens, whom she read in Norwegian. Years after she was dead, I wrote a dissertation on Dickens, and though my study of the great man would no doubt have alarmed her, I had a funny feeling that by taking on the English novelist I was returning to my Norwegian roots.
— Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays
William loathed his family,' Mercer said. 'With cause.
— Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
Life is like a balancing act and we are always just a step away from a fall.
— Dee Waldeck
You can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely.
— Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary
Home is supposed to be a place of security, the last resort of refuge.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando, Disciples of Fortune
People can do what they like in the privacy of their own homes.
— Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary
You don’t choose these people and in the not choosing you learn tolerance. You learn to forgive.
— Heather Babcock, Of Being Underground and Moving Backwards
There is no limit to what a person can do that has been inspired by the arts!
— Editor, Fossil Mountain Publishing
What is family anyway but people who are always supposed to be there for you? Family should be rock solid, the earth beneath your feet, wind beneath your wings, and all that.
— Arlaina Tibensky, And Then Things Fall Apart
Your life is the people who fill it," Mel says. "And nothing's good without them.
— Kayla Rae Whitaker, The Animators
Therefore, you should fall in love as often as you can. Fall in love with a thing, with a soul, with every person in your life. Fall in love with your very existence. Only then will you know you have lived.
— R. Y.S. Perez, I Hope You Fall in Love: Poetry Collection
What makes a family is neither the absence of tragedy nor the ability to hide from misfortune, but the courage to overcome it and, from that broken past, write a new beginning.
— Steve Pemberton, A Chance in the World: An Orphan Boy, a Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home
Then in the spring something happened to me. Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy for time.
— Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night
There should ne’er be a timeWhen a duty or dimeDoth outshineThe importance of family.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
I always envisioned myself as traveling the ocean of life in a rowboat where my mother was one oar and my father, the other. Having two good, solid oars made rowing much easier.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Mother often said that she could never be bothered to understand why Alice did the things she did, and now, more than ever, Alice thought never being bothered was a very lazy way to love someone.
— Tahereh Mafi, Furthermore
My family is like America
—  we are a blend of melanin and uncertain borders.
There are a world of answers, outside the loop.
— Anthony Liccione
I grew it - sorry, drew it - for this book, if for no other reason than to illustrate the old saying that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
— Connor Franta, A Work in Progress
There is something about saying, ‘We always do this,’ which helps keep the years together. Time is such an elusive thing that if we keep on meaning to do something interesting, but never do it, year would follow year with no special thoughtfulness being expressed in making gifts, surprises, charming table settings, and familiar food. Tradition is a good gift intended to guard the best gifts.
— Edith Schaeffer, What Is a Family?
As ever in the family Goodman, someone would have to swallow feelings here, and it was easier that it be Mercer.
— Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
Take it from a middle child; being a middle child sucks. You have neither the responsibility that comes with being the oldest nor the luxury that comes with being the baby. You have N O T H I N G. No label. No identity. Not to mention my fellow middle child, Nicola, was the only girl in the family. See! Nothing! You're the in-between child, squeezed into the order of things. You're the Idaho to New York and Los Angeles. You're the regular-sized cup in between the large and small. (I actually like a good medium-sized drink, to be quite honest, but you get the point.)
— Connor Franta, A Work in Progress
It's not like you can just stop loving someone overnight
— Abby Clements, Amelia Grey's Fireside Dream
Merry christmas to those who celebrate it...forgive your enemy, tolerance to your opponents, generosity to your friends, LOVE to your family, be good example to the kids and respect to yourself..is the best gift during this holy day...may you have the most joyful year!!! (Ejump,2016)
— ejump - 2016
If we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic." - Dov Brezak
— Dov Brezak, Chinuch In Turbulent Times: Practical Strategies For Parents And Educators
Not all mysteries are meant to be solved. Not all secrets are meant to be told.
— Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary
You think terrible things happened on the battlefields, but terrible things happened in ordinary suburban homes.
— Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary
Every marriage, every family, has its mysteries.
— Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary
Women always reveal their deepest secrets to each other.
— Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary
Family comes in many shapes and forms. It’s a single mom that happily gives up the things she wants or needs in order to provide that extra special something for her child. It’s the single father that’s trying to be a mother and father to his kids. It’s the parents that were never able to have children of their own and adopt a child. Family doesn’t show prejudice based on race, age or sex. Family isn’t only defined by blood; it’s defined by love. Something that Lily and I have in leaps and bounds. Family's what we make it, what we want it to be.
— Jennifer    Miller, Fighting Envy
The difference between a ‘man’ and a ‘father’ is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Everyone wants to procreate, have a miniature version of themselves running around, to carry on the family line.
— Paula Gruben, Umbilicus
But sometimes even people who care about each other need some time apart.
— Abby Clements, Amelia Grey's Fireside Dream
You should enjoy the freedom. Sometimes a bit of time helps you see what matters.
— Abby Clements, Amelia Grey's Fireside Dream
Sometimes in life you just have to take a leap of faith.
— Abby Clements, Amelia Grey's Fireside Dream
I'm not sure, with a grandmother like mine, if you can ever become a true American in the sense of believing that life is about the pursuit of happiness.
— Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
My family was relatively normal: the kind of normal where my stepfather blamed everything on the Amish, and my older sister thought hibernation only existed in fairy tales.
— Amber D. Tran, Moon River
If you are really doing all this for your kids, then why are you so mean to them?
— Dmitry Dyatlov
Whosoever does not believe in the existence of a sixth sense has clearly not regarded their own mother. How it is they know all they know about you, even those secrets you locked away so tightly in the most hidden compartments of your heart, remains one of the great mysteries of the world. And they don't just know—they know instantly.
— Narissa Doumani
We parents are in the process of losing parts of ourselves, of waking up each morning to find ourselves changed by our children. We may fantasize that we are not really changed, that we can go back to poring over Wittgenstein, immersing ourselves in the latest movies, being beach bums- whatever it was that we were before the child or children came into our lives. But part of what we have lost is the part of our identity that is the person-without-children. The parent we are now has a life inextricably entwined not only without our past life and our private selves but also with the lives of our children.
— Daniel Gottlieb, Voices in the Family: A Therapist Talks About Listening, Openness & Healing
I think we owe it to our children to share our wisdom. If we share our wisdom for the purpose of changing our children, then that’s hitting them over the head with a hammer or shoving something down their throats. If the wisdom turns into advice, that’s selfish. But if we simply share ourselves and let our children know our hearts, then it’s a gift. And I think it’s a gift we’re responsible for giving them.
— Daniel Gottlieb
When you have done all that you can do, A true Mother will always stick by you. You may think sometimes that she is rude. She has to be because this world can be crude.
— Carl Busby Sr, Poems from the Sand II
What could you do, when what threatened the ones you loved was something else you loved just as much?
— Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight
Thanks, Mom. Thanks for making me try out for this play.'I think I might have just made being a mother totally worthwhile for her.I will try to never forget her face...Mom's got tears in her eyes and she's smiling. It's an amazing look.I have to remember how powerful it can be to say thank you.Especially to the people you live with.
— Holly Goldberg Sloan, Short
And then we get new homes that we make for ourselves.
— Nina LaCour, Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories
You know I won’t take a chance with your lives…” Ethan replied. “You’re the future of the Fortner family.” He smiled and took her hand in his. “Like I said, don’t worry…before you know it you’ll have Jeff back and you can tell him he’s going to be a father!
— C.G. Faulkner, White Room: A Cold War Thriller
....And let me tell you something about families they're overrated. They're a weakness. The leave you or get taken from you or they disappoint you. Families are a liability.
— Michael Robotham, Lost
There are many memories. but I'll tell you the one I like to think of best of all. It's just a homely everyday thing, but to me it is the happiest of them all. It is evening time here in the old house and the supper is cooking and the table is set for the whole family. It hurts a mother, Laura, when the plates begin to be taken away one by one. First there are seven and then six and then five...and on down to a single plate. So I like to think of the table set for the whole family at supper time. The robins are singing in the cottonwoods and the late afternoon sun is shining across the floor... The children are playing out in the yard. I can hear their voices and happy laughter. There isn't much to that memory is there? Out of a lifetime of experiences you would hardly expect that to be the one I would choose as the happiest, would you? But it is.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand
Hurt can make you blind to the truth
— Abby Clements, Amelia Grey's Fireside Dream
ilet myselfknowthat my lifedoesn'thave to be overjust becausetheirs are& i wentahead& paintedthe sunback into my sky.I am allowed to live my life.
— Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One
The She-dragon called Ghleanna had been standing behind him. She grabbed his hair and yanked the old dragon forward while ramming the blade of her sword into his snout. Bram glanced down at Kachka and smiled. “Isn’t she glorious?”Ghleanna pulled the old dragon off her sword and focused on the soldiers. “Kill all of them!” she screamed, and dragons dropped from the skies, landing hard on the soldier dragons.“The royals always forget,” Bram murmured. “Cadwaladrs never fight alone.
— G.A. Aiken, Light My Fire
If Indian weddings for Indian people are the furthest from “fun,” trips to India for Indian people are the furthest from “vacation.” When I told my friends about the upcoming trip, everyone purred about what a great time I’d have, told me to take a lot of photos, told me to eat everything. But if you’re going to India to see your family, you’re not going to relax, you’re not going to have a nice time. No, you’re going so you can touch the very last of your bloodline, to say hello to the new ones and goodbye to the older ones, since who knows when you’ll visit again. You are working.
— Scaachi Koul, One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
I wanted someone above me in the chain of life. I didn't want to be alone, a single blue egg in a crumbling nest.
— Kathy Hepinstall, The Book of Polly
Respect elders; protect children. This I do believe. As a young man it is sometimes, in a charitable sense, difficult to shake the sentiment that every elderly person is my grandparent, and every child is my child.
— Criss Jami
I consider my wife and children in all things; yet, I must consider Amara also.
— A.H. Septimius, Crowns Of Amara: The Return Of The Oracle
A visit to the family farm in spring means witnessing growth and challenge and beauty and stillness all rolled into one.
— Heidi Barr, Prairie Grown: Stories and Recipes from a South Dakota Hillside
Find something new, adventurous and fun for kids in Sacramento with the amazing events including sports, cooking classes, camps and filed trips only at the premium business listing directory, Sacramento4Kids.
— Sacramento4Kids
Do not try to be your father boy, it is a hopeless pursuit, particularly when you, like I, have a father of such colossal proportions.
— A.H. Septimius, Crowns Of Amara: The Return Of The Oracle
What tethers me to my parents is the unspoken dialogue we share about how much of my character is built on the connection I feel to the world they were raised in but that I've only experienced through photos, visits, food. It's not mine and yet, I get it. First-generation kids, I've always thought, are the personification of déjà vu.
— Durga Chew-Bose, Too Much and Not the Mood
There was something scary and anxiety-inducing about being in a space where nothing seemed to be forbidden to him, where everything was offered to him and nothing was asked in return
— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
Commitment is the only currency that keeps a family together.
— Ben Tolosa, Masterplan Your Success
My sister lived in the moment. She said she would love the summer only when it came and warmed her. But I lived and still live in the future. Where it’s warm when it’s cold. Where dreams are not yet reality. Where the sad people are happy. The only problem with living in the future is that everyone has died, including yourself. So your plans are fiction and your predictions are fantasy. Living in the future is pure fantasy. I think that’s why I love it so dearly.
— F.K. Preston, The Artist, The Audience and a Man Called Nothing
Loyalty makes you family
—  Keep this rare personality
What is in your blood matters, but not as much as what is in your heart.
— Sonja Yoerg, All the Best People
I guess she was a life line Sewing our family fabric togetherFrom me to dad to herGave me a sense of continuity Especially when my daughter was bornAs she was slipping away
— Richard L.  Ratliff
Our home is a belonging place.
— Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
Well, it's true for every elder sibling, We have this supremely potent weapon "parents " on our side in such matters. In fact, such are the times when our maturity works wonders in hitching parents to our side over these younger siblings.
— Parul Wadhwa, The Masquerade
Once people knew about the cancer, I wouldn't be able to stop them from talking about Val every time they saw me. And then I would stop being me, because my time was something I could only buy at home.
— Melanie Conklin, Counting Thyme
Healthy boys grow into healthy men.
— Clayton Lessor MA, LPC
According to most studies on the subject, boys who grow up without fathers grow up at a disadvantage.
— Clayton Lessor MA, LPC
Whatever form they take, families are our most time-honoured settings for giving and receiving love, understanding and nurturing. They can connect us with our past and be the ground for the future through our children. They are places where we stand the best chance of being understood for who we truly are, not what we possess or the power we wield. They can give us meaning in life and hope when the outside world fails us and when we fail.
— Dr Brian Babington
Everybody has a story. It’s like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can’t say you haven’t got them. Same goes for stories.
— Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
Teaching a boy to be a man is the primary job of a father.
— Clayton Lessor MA, LPC
There’s a wound most troubled boys share, which, at its core, comes from the feeling that they don’t have their father’s unconditional love.
— Clayton Lessor MA, LPC
When a boy feels as if no one cares about him, or as if he will never amount to anything, he truly believes it doesn’t matter what he does.
— Clayton Lessor MA, LPC
I gladly gave my aunt the privilege of scraping off all gum so my job wasn’t as interesting or horrifying. I did find a few more menu drawings--a baby’s scribble, an elaborate tic-tac-toe board, and some stretched out stick figures that made me miss Addie again.
— Kate Willis, Enjoy the Poodle Skirt
Later that afternoon the house is quiet
—  Usha knows that it is a forced and eerie quiet that comes with emptiness rather than with the fullness of serenity.
That morning all of us girls had put our hair in high vintage-like ponytails, and Aunt Julie joked that we could almost be triplets. I laughed but knew that since my hair was so straight no one would ever confuse Rose and I.
— Kate Willis, Enjoy the Poodle Skirt
One night a flock of red-tailed black cockatoos break the quiet as they charge up from the creek, right over the homestead, then down the hill towards Clem's house.'They're my favourite, you know, of all the birds, they're the best,' comes Tom's raspy whisper. 'I know Dad,' says Clem. 'You always say.''They're majestic, dramatic. You wouldn't argue with one.
— Nicole Sinclair, Bloodlines
Large families are communities unto their own.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Despite what you might believe right now, your son’s future is bright. You only need the right tools to help him get there.
— Clayton Lessor MA, LPC
What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation about illnesses that affect not only individuals, but their families as well.
— Glenn Close
Family isn't always who you're born to. It's who you're with, who you love. Those families can even be stronger." - Meira, Frost Like Night
— Sarah Raasch
It’s time to stop dreaming about who you want your son to be and help him become the healthy, happy, and successful man he’s supposed to be.
— Clayton Lessor MA, LPC
I could have happily moved in and left my own cold, dark house behind, pretended as if this family were my own: loud and teasing and good-natured, instead of the fractured broken truth.
— Unknownwn
A theatrical spectacle is inherent whenever family members congregate and reacquaint themselves with powerful universal themes educed from homecomings including hugs, food, drink, conversation, politics, games, music, conflict, terror, mercy, smiles, tears, prayers, misfortune, and self-discovery.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Looking at the root of a word is much like looking at the roots of a tree. The foundation is important, but even a tree with a strong root can still bear sickly fruit if it is subject to mismanagement
— Mary Robinette Kowel
Healing, it turns out, is a journey. It doesn’t happen all at once.
— Clayton Lessor MA, LPC
Surround yourself with family and treasure your time together. Family aren’t always blood. They’re the people in your life who want you in theirs
—  the ones that accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.
Fathers and daughters have a special bond. She is always daddy's little girl.
— Richard L.  Ratliff
Mom has reorganized the kitchen so that the one room that was everyone's room is foreign to me. My visits are punctuated with me whipping around, angrily demanding, "Where are the forks, WHY DID YOU MOVE THE FORKS?" and she has to calmly open the drawer on the other side of the kitchen as if she moved it just to ruin my life. I just found out where she puts the bowls and their new location feels like such a personal attack that I can barely talk about it without raising my blood pressure.
— Scaachi Koul, One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
Your mother wasn’t upset. “Scars stay with you so you don’t forget,” she said. She seemed almost satisfied.
— Jinat Rehana Begum, First Fires
My mother had been in the Soviet whirlpool for eleven years by this point. Enough time, I imagine, to unlearn the bourgeois habits of her native Brooklyn, to accustom herself to the farting and shouting of her neighbours, to doing her washing by hand in the collective tub, to keeping her dry food locked up in her wardrobe
— Sana Krasikov
It’s truly interesting to observe how genetics works in families, and what a huge lottery it is to inherit some of our relatives’ appearance features.
— Sahara Sanders, INDIGO DIARIES: A Series of Novels
Never lose sight of the people who are the foundation of the future you are working to build.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
Moses loved his relatives quite openly and even helplessly . . . It was childish of him; he knew that. He could only sigh at himself, that he should be so undeveloped on that significant side of his nature.
— Saul Bellow, Herzog
Once upon a time, before the boys were killed and when there were more horses than cars, before the male servants disappeared and they made do, at Upleigh and at Beechwood, with just a cook and a maid, the Sheringhams had owned not just four horses in their own stable, but what might be called a 'real horse', a racehorse, a thoroughbred. Its name was Fandango. It was stabled near Newbury. It had never won a damn thing. But is was the family's indulgence, their hope for fame and glory on the racecourses of southern England. The deal was that Pa and Ma - otherwise known in his strange language as 'the shower' - owned the head and body and he and Dick and Freddy had a leg each.'What about the fourth leg?''Oh the fourth leg. That was always the question.
— Graham Swift, Mothering Sunday
It was a bad idea to play chicken with someone who'd known you your whole life. Nobody came out a winner.
— Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne
It’s one thing to have a support system in your lifeto cheer you on during the instances wheneveryone is rooting for you. However, it’s anotherthing entirely to look back in your darkestmoments and still see them standing in yourcorner, encouraging you to stay in the ring andFIGHT, when the odds aren’t in your favor and allyou want to do is throw in the towel.Not many people in this life will be on your sideeven when they aren’t on your side. Even less whomomentarily will slam doors out of frustration butnever actually lock you out.Unconditional love; the definition of sister.
— Alicia Cook, Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately
He keeps getting older while I'm not paying attention.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races
What you do is less important than the difference you make.
— Tiffany Dufu, Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less
Wolves are brotherly," he said. "They love each other, and if you learn to speak to them, they will love you too.
— Jean Craighead George, Julie of the Wolves
Amma and i went to each house to tell them we were leaving. They all said, 'Don't forget us. Keep visiting.' At the age I was then, this seemed absurd. i had grown up among them - how was it even possible to forget these people? Now I see what they meant.
— Vivek Shanbhag, Ghachar Ghochar
Silence descended on the house. [....] Amma must have sensed that this was the sort of silence that, left unchallenged, could consume the family from within.
— Vivek Shanbhag, Ghachar Ghochar
Do you ever think?What?They were lying together on the sofa that had always been there, the crappy beat-up biscuit-colored sofa that was managing, as best it could, its promotion from threadbare junk to holy artifact.You know.What if I don't know?You fucking do.Okay, yeah. Yes. I, too, wonder if Dad worried so much about every single little goddamned thing . . . That he summoned it.Thanks. I couldn't say it.That some god or goddess heard him, one time too many, getting panicky about whether she'd been carjacked at the mall, or had, like, hair cancer . . .That they delivered the think even he couldn't imagine worrying about.It's not true.I know.But we're both thinking about it. That may have been their betrothal. That may have been when they took their vows: We are no longer siblings, we are mates, starship survivors, a two-man crew wandering the crags and crevices of a planet that may not be inhabited by anyone but us. We no longer need, or want, a father. Still, they really have to call him. It's been way too long.
— Michael Cunningham, The Snow Queen
Good parents...give their children roots and wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.
— Bettie B. Youngs
If you are going somewhere. Go, only if you're coming back.
— Priya Malik
My parents seemed incredibly special and outrageously handsome to me then.
— Gabrielle Hamilton, Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef