Quotes About Family

am surprised your mother has not given you the same advice." Christina stared at her. "She has, she has done for years. I pay no attention. One's mother is always giving one good advice.

Locked together in hatred. But I can't hate you Louis. Louis my love, I was mortal till you gave me your immortal kiss. You became my mother, and my father, and so I'm yours forever. But now it's time to end it, Louis. Now it's time to leave him. - Claudia, 'Interview with a Vampire

But in every family there are bad people, and weak people, and some people who can't or won't withstand the trials of life, and who fail spectacularly. Their guardian angels weep; demons beholding them dance for joy. But only The Maker decides what ultimately happens to them.

Dig deep, deep, my soul, to find the heart--the blood, the heat, the shrine and resting place. Dig deep, deep into the moist soil all the way to where they lie, those I love--she, Mother, with her dark hair loose and gone, her bones long since tumbled in the back of the vault, as other coffins came to rest in her spot, but in this dream I range them round me to hold as if she were there...

Finally those you love are simply ... those you love.

New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people.

I wish you hadn't told her. If you must know, I could have done without your telling her I commited statutory rape on the living room couch with her cousin. - Michael Curry

Can you picture it, this splendid domesticity, dim lamps, the vampire father singing to the vampire daughter? Only the doll had a human face, only the doll.

A finely carved Black Forest cuckoo clock hung just to the right of the hutch. Phil would love that, Reuben thought. Phil had once collected cuckoo clocks, and their constant chiming and tweeting and cooing had driven everybody at home a little nuts.

death had come to dinner in their small house near the ramparts and stayed to say grace when everyone was done.

As for his father, he saw death in the falling leaves.

It's Stella. Stella's got the gift and she'll get everything when I die.' 'And what's the gift, Miss Mary Beth?' my mother asked her. 'Why, Stella's seen the man,' Miss Mary Beth said to my mother. 'And the one who can see the man when she's all alone inherits all.

You're mine, of my flesh and of my blood.

There were so many of us, bound together by love, in the Talamasca, and each one is a special case.

Her narrow oval face was so like his and yet so not. He had never been so divorced from feeling, never so abstract in his anger as she was now.

The family was not just the family to them; it was the clan; the nation; the religion; the obsession. I

Te lo puedes imaginar, esta espléndida situación doméstica, el padre vampiro que canta a su hija vampiro? Únicamente la muñeca tenía un rostro humano, únicamente la muñeca.

I didn't like seeing blood on him any more than I liked seeing it on Merrick. It struck me hard how much I loved them both.

Can you picture it?' she said so softly I scarcely heard. 'A coven of children? That is all I could provide…

I wanted my house, my children, Amadeo, Bianca. I wanted my Venice. I wanted my mortal world.

Lorraine McQueen is her name, and everyone hereabouts calls her Miss Queen or Aunt Queen.

You dared to publish a chronicle using the name Merrick Mayfair. You dared to do this even though a great family by the name of Mayfair lives in this city and its environs to this day. You had no care when you did that.

thought of themselves as Irish, often making remarks to that effect; and that they emerged in the consciousness of many who knew them—servants and peers alike—as almost stereotypically Irish in their madness and eccentricity and penchant for the morbid. Several critics of the family have called them "raving Irish loonies.

The Mayfairs, what are they to me? And what is a great family, a rich family?