Quotes About Family

I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.

I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

He knows that something somewhere has to break/He sees the family home now looming in the headlights/The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache/ Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage/on the shore of a dark Scottish lake

My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.

These moments, here in this house, your lovely house, should not be sullied by thoughts of Death; they are a time for Life.

My hostess had an extensive family of brats, sticky-mouthed and staring, who were huddled around a delightfully huge fire.

Family closeness was not an attribute that could be applied to the Malagashes.

Keep the fiercest of beasts close to the hearth. No beast ravages its own hearth. No sane beast.

If Leonid the emperor was a lion, his sons were wolves, and now their eyes shone in the dark, brilliant with hunger and ferocity. It couldn't go on like this. Something would happen. Everything would change, and when it did, Merlan very much wanted to be on the winning side.

Of all her sons, only Bayard and Leo had remained intimate with her. They were her golden boys.

The man was canny, but then he had not lost a son.

My father was still using every available opportunity to clip me for my part in Sammael's re-emergence into the world.

Lily, something is happening to me, to my mind. I feel weak and afraid. We are kin, you and Owen and I. You must not turn away from me.

The last time I spoke to my mother about this matter, her aims were similar to ours in many respects, except that she wants Bayard as king. A sun king, who will unify the disgruntled realms through the power of the spirit.

He cared about people, in a weird sort of way. I know he loved Owen and me, no matter what he did to us. Peveral Othman would have restored Owen after his ritual, but Shemyaza is not the person we knew before. Now he's a husk, and his indifference is worse than anything else.

The royal brothers both adored and loathed one another, each aware that the others were continually trying to usurp their father's favor.

For a moment, she thought of Varencienne and an unfamilar pang clenched her heart. My daughter, she thought. Where is she? Will she ever forgive me for this?

He, like his brother, the sad Mikha'il, had a wound above the heart that never healed.

This is my home. You've made it so.

I too have a headstrong sister," he said. "For all the problems she presents, I would not want her to be any other way.

Sitting there, with a tiny glass of cordial clutched in a hand more used to earthenware jugs of murky beer, I was thinking about how alien a concept the family-as it was presented here-to me. I found it oppressive and clammy, nothing more than a breeding ground for spite and intrigue.

The sight of this place was overpowering, simply because it was abandoned. It had not been just a noble family who had lived here, but a dynasty of great rulers. The Palindrakes had been reduced horribly.

The two cousins, Perdina and Voile, emerged from their sanctuary, dressed in white, their black hair loose like curtains around their pale, narrow faces.

Life aboard the beast was bizarre; the creature rocked from side to side, or undulated, but very soon the rhythm of it became compelling, needed. The Roughtys called it Beraftiel; they considered it to be a god, although they knew that a few generations forward, it would die and have to be burned and eaten. Then a new god would have to be found, or the family would die out.