Quotes About Family

She owed no one an explanation; if she had made mistakes she had been duly punished by giving up her family, suffering in the hold of the ship, losing her baby, and facing a future of total uncertainty.

I called him Grandfather, because according to him you do not have to be of the same blood or same tribe to be a member of the same family, but in truth I should have called him Maman. He was the only mother I ever knew.

Barrabás llegó a la familia por vía marítima.

He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits.

A Víctor, su sobrino le resultó indescriptible; todos los críos de esa edad se parecían a Winston Churchill

Distance erases the contours and colors of memory. I have letters and photographs of the family that Juan Martín built in Norway; he calls me on the phone and has come to see me in recent years, when I no longer had the strength for such a long trip, but when I think of my son I can't seem to conjure the exact details of his features or voice.

si las locuras se repiten en la familia, debe ser que existe una memoria genética que impide que se pierdan en el olvido.

Patria es donde están nuestros muertos», solía decir Carme.

you don't need photos to remember the people who matter to you.

Victor did not see death as an irremediable separation. He imagined his wife traveling ahead through sidereal space, where perhaps the souls of the dead ended up, while he was waiting his turn to join her, more curious than concerned. He would be there with his brother

Until he was four, Marcel didn't call her "mother" but "señora." The first words he said were "white wine" in Catalan, spoken in his playpen behind the tavern counter.

His wife, Leanne, who came to his waist, looked like an undernourished adolescent with the face of a fly, but her fragility was deceptive: she had given birth to six male children and was expecting the seventh. She knew it would be male because God was determined to test her patience.

Tell Larry I'm not going to the reception, and that he can't count on me for anything for the rest of my life." Her emphatic tone brooked no argument. Her daughter-in-law closed the door silently and went to give her husband the message.

Barrabás llegó a la familia por vía marítima, anotó la niña Clara con su delicada caligrafía. Ya entonces tenía el hábito de escribir las cosas importantes (…) sin sospechar que cincuenta años después, sus cuadernos me servirían para rescatar la memoria del pasado y para sobrevivir a mi propio espanto.

No se propuso formarla, como a sus propios hijos, sólo protegerla, y eso le dio libertad para quererla.

Sa nu-ti treaca cumva prin cap sa mori si sa ma lasi infinit de orfana.

El lunes te agarró la muerte, Paula. Vino y te señaló, pero se encontró frente a frente con tu madre y tu abuela y por esta vez retrocedió.

Isabel Allende

Anybody can write a good first book, but a writer is proved by the second and by those that follow; you are going to be judged harshly because success in women is not easily forgiven; write what you want; don't allow anybody to interfere with your work or in the handling of your money; treat your children like royalty, they deserve it; get married, because a husband, no matter if he is a moron, looks good.

Los médicos vencidos se habían retirado y las enfermeras se preparaban para desconectar los tubos y cubrirte con una sábana, cuando una de las pantallas mágicas dio un suspiro y la caprichosa línea verde empezó a ondular señalando tu retorno a la vida. ¡Paula! te llamamos mi madre y yo en una sola voz y las enfermeras repitieron el grito y la sala se llenó con tu nombre.

Parece que todos los hombres de su familia han sido de buen corazón, Alma. Hay poca gente así en este mundo. - Hay mucha gente buena, Irina, pero es discreta. Los malos, en cambio, hacen mucho ruido, por eso se notan más.

Isabel Allende

Ca sa devina camine, casele au nevoie de nasteri si de morti.

Weinig oude mensen zijn tevreden, Irina. De meesten leven in armoede, met een gebrekkige gezondheid en zonder familie. Dit is de moeilijkste en kwetsbaarste fase van ons leven, erger nog dan je kinderjaren, want met de dag ga je verder achteruit en er wacht je geen andere toekomst dan de dood.