Quotes About Family

Bea Aguilar was the very image of her mother and the apple of her father's eye. Redheaded and exquisitely pale, she always wore very expensive dresses made of silk or pure wool.

In this manner, secretly, the Fortuny family let the years go by, silencing their hearts and their souls to the point where, from so much keeping quiet, they forgot the words with which to express their real feelings and the family became strangers living under the same roof, like so many other families living in the vast city. - Phoenix paperback, 2005, p.132

You don't know my niece Clara, do you?" asked Barceló.

worst blows." Clara spoke these words

Marriage and family are only what we make of them. Without that they're just a nest of hypocrisy. Garbage and empty words. But if there is real love, of the sort one doesn't go around telling everyone about, the sort that is felt and lived...

El matrimonio y la familia no son más que los que nosotros hacemos de ellos. Sin eso, no son más que un pesebre de hipocresías

The apartment was directly above the bookshop, a legacy from my grandfather that specialized in rare collectors' editions and secondhand books—an enchanted bazaar, which my father hoped would one day be mine. I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

I'd always say to her, 'All right, if you don't invite me, I won't go,' and she'd answer, 'I don't need to invite you to my home, Father. One only invites strangers.

todo eso es diletancia. El matrimonio y la familia no son más que lo que nosotros hacemos de ellos. Sin eso, no son más que un pesebre de hipocresías. Morralla y palabrería. Pero si hay amor de verdad, del que no se habla ni se declara a los cuatro vientos, del que se nota y se demuestra...

Tako, u tajnovitosti, porodica Fortunj pusti da pro?u godine, u?utkuju?i svoja srca i svoje duše, do trenutka kad, od tolikog ?utanja, zaboraviše re?i za izražavanje svojih pravih ose?anja i pretvoriše se u strance koji su živeli zajedno pod istim krovom, jednim od tolikih u beskrajnom gradu.

We have the circus in our blood.

Las palabras con que se envenena el corazón de un hijo, por mezquindad o por ignorancia, se quedan enquistadas en la memoria y tarde o temprano le queman el alma. Pg.200

Il matrimonio e la famiglia sono un guscio vuoto e spetta a noi riempirlo di significato.

In this manner, secretly, the Fortuny family let the years go by, silencing their hearts and their souls to the point where, from so much keeping quiet, they forgot the words with which to express their real feelings and became strangers living under the same roof, like so many other families in the vast city.

Viviamo nel ricordo di chi ci ama

Scavy laughs. "It could have been worse," he says. "We could have grown old together. Got married. Had kids. Worked on the docks for shit pay." "Ewww…" Popcorn says.

Carly Phillips

The affirmation of female power contained in the Goddess symbol has both psychological and political consequences. Psychologically, it means the defeat of the view engendered by patriarchy that women's power is inferior and dangerous. This new 'mood' of affirmation of female power also leads to new 'motivations' it supports and undergirds women's trust in their own power and the power of other women in family and society.

Mrs. Latham patted Hayley's knee with a frail, liver-spotted hand. ''I'm sure you do, dear. And I'm afraid those kinds of losses don't get any easier as we grow older. Mrs. Latham turned, including Colton in her smile as she changed the subject. ''I'm so thrilled to finally be able to restore Victorian Oaks. It's been my dream for some time. I understand you grew up there, Colt said. Yes, indeed. I was a Palmer before I married Mr. Latham. It pains me to see the old house going to ruin.

Learning to skip has brought control into her life. Whenever she feels at all sad she switches into this wholly happy gait, sliding, hopping, and sliding again; when doing this, it seems as though her head separates from her body, making her feel dizzy and emptied out of bad thoughts. Does anyone else in the world know this trick, she wonders. Probably not, though her mother sometimes waves at her from the window, waves and smiles.

The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun (Perigee, 2006), The Goodenoughs Get in Sync (Sensory World, 2010), Growing an In-Sync Child (Perigee, 2010), and In-Sync Activity Cards (Sensory World, 2012).

The kids all turned to look at the Mystery Girl and saw Mimi's and Papa's bottoms as they leaned into the plane looking for the lost necklace. Uh, I guess you'll meet the front of them later, Grant said.

Everyone seated at the table stared at Mimi and the kids. They did not speak nor give them any form of recognition or welcome to join them. How dangerous can a grandmother and four kids look? Christina whispered to Alex, who giggled.

He didn't know who he was messing with, did he, Papa? asked Grant, giving his karate pose. Papa laughed. No, Grant, he didn't. He finally picked on a family he couldn't outsmart. I guess he'll go to jail now. With moose hair up his nose! said Alex and they all laughed.