Quotes About Family

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I recognize the classic story elements from my own life. A family legacy of alcoholism. A parent who was a chronic drunk, another parent who was a chronic enabler. Hitting that awkward, anxious phase of high school, not knowing who I was or where I belonged—and consequently tossing back a beer at that party, or stealing a shot of my parents' liquor before boarding the school bus. That magical melting feeling that immediately followed. That sense of almost primal recognition.

I mean, if this guy is her brother, why is she so freakin' anxious to get away from him?

Anyway, I grew up with a mom who regularly manipulated reality to best suit her needs. I

No doubt about it: Mac would make an excellent mother.

She's such a lovely woman, he'd tell me time and time again. I'd nod, because my mom is such a lovely woman. And charming and smart. Can't argue with any of that. She's also a fucking wack job.

What is it about returning to my mother's house that immediately turns me into a five-year-old?

People all over really are the same. They want to fall in love. They're glad to survive each day. They pray their children will have a better life than they did. These truths bind us.

Assuming I keep out of sight long enough, my brother, the state's most wanted killer, will find me.

Teenagers," he said into the silence, his smile knowing. "Can't live with 'em, can't shoot 'em." "But you can ground them, if they still live with you," she said, and silently added, Even when they're in their twenties.

Khloe's mother—a

Jeremy was the spitting image of his father, Joe Strand, while Bianca was a miniature Luke.

To be exact, there are twenty-three pairs of chromosomes in the human body, and each chromosome is packed with genes, and each gene holds myriad genetic information," Catherine explained. "My family

As the father of your children, as a friend, as someone who shared a journey with you and as someone who loves you and cares about you. I don't need to be married to you to be all those things. Those things are deeper than marriage. Those things are for ever.

I'm really sorry I can't pay you back," I said. He shook his head. "My father's going to take everything you own and then break your life. It's the least I can bloody do.

My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies. My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was the bad influence.

Stop looking at me like that. Sorry, I just wanted to savor the moment, Mom replied. What moment? I asked. You're in first place, she said, and then began washing the windows.

While he bore no real resemblance to anyone in my family, his features were a collection of my mother's and father's best attributes, with a few of Gregory Peck's thrown in.

Hank Promise's niece.  But he'd talk to Mandy

If I'm yelling at you, you know I love you. Because I want your chest to keep going up and down, whether you're my daughter or my mother. Or whether I'm your daughter or your mother. It's all the same emotion, which is worry. Or love!

Moms never get out of the kid business. Last time I checked, motherhood had no expiration date.

Yes, she's about to embark on a new phase of her life. And yes, my role in her life may change. But as time goes on and our hearts grow more rings, we don't have to leave anyone behind. We can hold on to each other, and collect new hearts to hold, from this day forward, as long as we all shall live.

Ha! She has a dark side, my sister. Nobody believes it, but she used to torture me when I was little.

She had lived long enough to learn that families didn't dissolve or reconfigure neatly, but left debris lying everywhere, and it was human debris. And sometimes, like tonight, she felt as if she were tripping over the bodies.