Quotes About Family

Families necessitate energetic concealment of the obvious, to be plain about it. To be in a family is to work strenuously to suppress the truth, for reasons I cannot determine, and the shadow, when it came, caused competing strategies in the family I occupied.

We shared a daughter? I'd not thought about it that way before. If we shared a daughter, and something happened to Claire, then I would not have to hare Esther with her anymore. I would have Esther to myself.

Pattern was a family name belonging to their great-grandmother, who lived on a brutally cold little island, and who, according to their mother, had made a sport of surviving terminal illnesses.

these people who were supposed to be my family, who had conspired to look enough like me to serve as a critique of my appearance...

The word 'camouflage' simply means 'to have a family'.

Loud people have thin, hollow bones. They can be broken in half and discarded into a pit. They snap as easily as children do, but they will not burn as long in a fire. If a loud person tries to store his voice in a jar, he will not be able to, unless the jar is a mouth worn on the face of someone in his family, which he must prize open with his fingers while shouting deep into the hole there.

I noticed that in a corner, across from where they ate with such innocent relish, sitting forlorn and abandoned, was the ghost of their son. He had lost both of his arms, one side of his face was squashed, and both his eyes had burst. He had bluish wings. He was the saddest ghost in the house.

The school-children were in their uniforms. A cock crowed repeatedly. Mum got her tray together. I was ready for school. Mum went down the street, swaying, moving a little sleepily, with one more burden added to her life. She was merely a detail in the poverty of our area.

Capgras delusion is a psychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend, spouse, parent, or other close family member (or pet) has been replaced by an identical impostor.

I still say Kellyanne could do with some real-live mates," went on my dad, as if he was talking to someone inside his beer. Mum had stomped off into the kitchen. "Maybe they are real!" she shouted back at him after rattling a few plates together. "Ever thought about that, ye of little bloody imagination?

We also planted trees - it became a hobby, for we had discovered what a satisfaction it can be to watch a tree grow and develop. Sometimes a tree will turn out better than any of a man's children, and a tree will endure - its life will outlast our life.

They believed that anyone who worked hard to feed his or her family, no matter how humble the work, deserved respect.

my mother was, though intelligent, not particularly intellectual.

Although my parents always treated Lennie Mae respectfully, I was aware of the social distinctions between us, probably in part because Lennie Mae herself was so aware of those distinctions.

Given the age differences, I didn't spend a lot of time with my siblings, except when pressed into service as a babysitter.

This character trait ("flaw" is probably a better word) had caused some tension with Anna early in our marriage. But we had struck a deal: I would work in the morning on weekends and holidays and in the afternoon and evening devote my full attention to family and recreation.

of knowing what the job was likely to entail for both her husband and the family.

In contrast to Lina, Masia was warm and outgoing—everything a boy could want in a grandmother.

He longed for community and a sense of belonging that had been absent from the austere atmosphere of his own home.

She worried how I was doing in kindergarten and sent my father to check on me.

Aunt logic is an immovable object; aunts themselves an unstoppable force.

How many boys like him were out there in the ether, holding on to their big brothers and sisters who were still alive? How many husbands were floating between life and death, clinging to their wives in this world? And how may millions and millions of people were there in the world like Charlie who wouldn't let go of their loved ones when they're gone?

For the first time in forever, he'll wake up to a new beagle's bark every motning, with a feeling that the world is all right and everyone he cares about is safe and sound

My definition of survivor encompasses people going through difficult times and also the friends and family who stand beside them. In the cancer community, they're called cosurvivors or secondary patients.