Quotes About Family

What did you bring your host family?' 'Chocolate.' 'Chocolate.' She sighed. 'I'm afraid I'll accidentally eat it all before I get there,' I said, following the rule that you had to pretend to have this problem where you couldn't resist chocolate.

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 when they were all together without the lights shining on them.

Zack, who has a penchant for arcane knowledge, informs Ava that a family of a boy followed by a girl is known as the king's choice. There is the son to carry on the family name, and the daughter to marry off and create a dynasty.

be present and celebrate the holiday instead of wishing it over. After all, one is given only a certain number of Christmases in one's life.

She waved good-bye and hurried down the street towards her family's house, thinking again that some nights had good karma and some nights were cursed, and for a few moments, tonight had seemed like the former, but it had ended up the latter.

She gazes over at baby Genevieve, who is now asleep in Kevin's arms, and thinks, I really don't have any words of advice at all. The world is an endlessly confounding place.

I want you to do what siblings are supposed to do—hate your parents but love each other!

Being a mother was the best of all human experiences, and also the most excruciating.

Even Meredith's attraction to Freddy had paled when compared to the real love of Meredith's life. The steady, unconditional, fortifying love of Meredith's father was gone forever.

Cash loves his brother, in theory. In practice, he can't stand the guy.

Even if Willa lives to be a hundred and is surrounded by children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren, she will still miss her mother. So all she can hope for are unexpected moments of grace.

figures. PJ was in the middle, Trish and Harrison were to PJ's right, and Potter and Ava were to PJ's left. All of the figures were holding hands and the sun was shining above them. The drawing was more than Ava

All a mother wants, Margot, is for her children to be happy. And that may take different forms at different times.

Jake asks if Mallory has any questions. Well, yes, she does: How is anyone expected to devote eighteen years to raising a child and then, one day, just leave him in an unfamiliar place among strangers twelve hundred miles from home?

Elin Hilderbrand

You know what the happiest summer of my life was?" Kate asks. 'When you turned 13?' Jessie guesses. "I was 13 during the Great Depression, so no.

The greatest risk there is. The risk of parenthood. You're a mother.

Kelley becomes addicted to the novels of Danielle Steel. Now, there's a woman who knows about life: dying billionaires who cut their obnoxious children out of the will, unappreciated housewives who fall into the arms of the children's sailing instructor. And Ms. Steel writes one heck of a sex scene.

saying so regardless, for the kids' sake. Was it possible that Arch's spirit resided here, that his soul

quickly. "And I'll find something. I'm not completely penniless." Maia swallows. "Gramps told me I could move

You will never, ever understand how much I love you…until you have children of your own and then every word I've ever said will make perfect sense.

Elin Hilderbrand

For time and space and love and laughter, I have to thank my own home team: my husband, Chip Cunningham, who has, over the past nineteen years, made all of my dreams come true; my all-star son Maxx Cunningham (who gets his first cameo in one of Mom's books); my son Dawson "the Dawg" Cunningham, who is coming out on top; and my radiant daughter, Shelby Cunningham.

parents didn't stop loving their children for any reason. Love, then, Connie decided. The most important lesson is love.