Quotes About Family

Miles. I have to talk to you." "Just a minute." The minute became two or three or four, as he leaned against the doorframe and scuffed his boot on the patterned carpet. He knocked again. "C'mon, Simon, let me in." "Don't be so impatient, Miles," his aunt's voice admonished him firmly. "It's a bit rude." He

He'd never been serious about twelve; he'd just figured to start with that proposition, and fall back to six. His mother, his aunt, and what seemed every other female of his acquaintance had all mobilized to explain to him that he was insane, but Ekaterin had merely smiled.

Because that's what family was all about, in her experience. They pulled together in a crisis; it was just too bad about the rest of the time.

stings on my butter bugs, Barrayarans would like them better?" "No!" said Miles and Mark together. Enrique sat back, looking rather hurt.

Leif had a heart of courage. Whenever someone spoke of his steady ways, Bree glanced at Thjodhild. As proud as any mother, she seemed to tuck the words away in her heart.

So, if you have a grandma, thank the good Lord above, and give your grandmamma hugs and kisses, for grandmothers are to love.

Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

While motherhood may indeed require a woman who says 'yes', grandmotherhood does not.

time. I think I know how the mother of a teenage daughter must feel. Like an indispensable annoyance.

The problem with Thanksgiving is that the pressure for the meal and the conversation to be perfect is daunting.

Would it be all right if I threw dishes at my former mother-in-law?

My mommy said my daddy fights bad men and wins. She says he likes to fish and he knows how to play really cool games. Her chin lifted a notch in a surfeit of pride. She said my daddy will love me more than a kid loves ice cream. My mommy doesn't lie to me, so you lied to her when you told her you were my daddy. You are not my daddy! She screamed the final declaration to him, dry-eyed and filled with childish fury.

Megan wanted to groan. You guys are smothering me. Braden leaned against the wall, watching it all, never speaking. Sexy and silent. Okay, so he had a few things going for him. Get used to it, Her father's voice brooked no refusal. Until I leave this world, you are still my daughter and still under my protection. Protect Lance. She waved her hand at her smirking cousin. He's in more danger than I am if he keeps pissing me off. Share the love, Dad.

Hell. I saw Cassie running for that car and you know what ran through my mind, Merrie?" he asked her painfully. Merinus sighed deeply. "That you had failed." She surprised him with that answer. "You couldn't protect your own, and now you hadn't protected Cassie either." "Yeah," he breathed out roughly. "But how did you know?" "Because it's the same thing Sherra told me before she locked herself in her room

As Rowdy watched his father leave the room, a heavy sigh slipped past his lips. Maria's objections to his relationship made more sense now. He shook his head, realizing how well his father, James Salyers, and Maria had kept that secret. Reputations. Theirs was intact, but his wasn't. And now, he was risking Kelly's as well.

Catching her hand, he drew her with him as he laid Amber in the crib and took his mate back to bed. No one heard the small sound that was made after their bedroom door closed: a soft, sweet, kittenish little purr.

Rowdy braced himself. He could feel the sexual tension beginning to heat up in the room. His cousins had waited years for this. Hell, they all had. "I'm not sharing her." The words were out of Rowdy's mouth before he could stop them.

I'm heading home, Mother. Please get Father off my back and out of my life for a day or so if you don't mind. I do have family matters to take care of now.

Questions still plagued her, as did an instinctive discomfort regarding the idea that Rowdy could ever want to touch another woman, no matter the relationship that developed between her and his cousins.

Crista." His voice, despite its gentleness, resonated with a dark, hidden fury. "Was he alone?" Her hand gripped the doorframe as she met his gaze. "It was just Dawg and me, Alex. I swear." This time. She knew if it happened again, if she dared to let it ever repeat, then it wouldn't be just Dawg. And when that happened, Dawg would make an enemy of her brother for life.

don't want you to say anything, Son. I want you to let Kelly come to you. She's been scared to death of your return, and I don't know why myself. I know you wouldn't hurt her, but I know for a fact she knows about some of those little affairs you and your cousins have participated in." And his father suspected she was scared of him now. Rowdy could see it in Ray's eyes, feel it in the air around them.

Even the fact that eventually, the man she loved would touch another woman, pleasure her, fuck her. She couldn't accept his cousins' touch without that knowledge.

Was James Dawg Mackay aware Johnny was also the biological son of his father, your brother Chandler Mackay?