Quotes About Family

FORGIVENESS SHIFTED MY PERSPECTIVE, MY LIFE, AND THE VITAL SIGNS OF MY FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS.

What if forgiving my mother also means forgiving myself?

Love, after all, was universal. Qhuinn closed his fist up tight, and knew he would never, ever take that ring off. "Always," Blay murmured. "Because family is an always kind of thing.

Those into whose lives you are born do not pass away. Slow Man

One day, after I mistakenly added five garlic cloves to the pesto I'd prepared, rather than the one clove the recipe called for, Sylvia announced that the baby was kicking mightily, and what a strange and wondrous thing it is to put your hand on your wife's belly and feel your child moving like an agitated Mexican jumping bean.

It's easy to find something worth dying for. Do you have anything worth living for?

A writer is without honor only in his or her own home, among his or her own family.

Ehric frowned as he peeled a Post-It note off the package. Preheat to three seventy-five. His brother went to the wall ovens and began pushing buttons. Convection? Doesn't say. Damn it. Under and other circumstances, Assail would have found it impossible to believe that Ecale was wasting his meager urge to speak on cooking. But Marisol and her grandmother had changed everything ... for the short time they had been here.

Peabody, you never cease to amaze me. One day I'll tell you about my granny and her five lovers. Five lovers isn't abnormal for a woman's lifetime. Not in her lifetime; last month. All at the same time. Peabody glanced up, deadpan. She's ninety-eight. I hope to take after her.

Neither of them knew what it was to be family, to have family, to make a family. They knew cruelty, abuse, abandonment. She wondered if that was why they had come together. They both understood what it was to have nothing, to know fear and hunger and despair- and both had remade themselves.

Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard or too sad when you've got a Christmas tree in the living room. All those presents under it, all that anticipation. Just a way of saying there's always light and hope in the world. And you're lucky enough to have a family to share it with.

What did people do with enormous families? All those cousins, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews. How did they keep them straight? How did they breathe at any sort of family function?

There's no such thing as an amicable divorce.

Parenthood always has its individual structure. And it's a risky business. You do your best.

Parents are weird and dangerous creatures.

It matters, Eve, that you came from monsters. Matters, he continued, gripping her chin in his hand, because, coming from them, you chose to make yourself into a woman who hunts the monsters. Not for vengeance, as would surely have been my choice, but for justice. I built a house. You built a hero.

He didn't say his first thought, always, was: Is she home? Is she safe?

No, it's personal. I said to him I'd never seen joy for me or pride in me shine in my mother's eyes. But that's not altogether true, because I've seen it in yours

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. —LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOI

Parents always feel the pride, and the responsibility.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. —Sigmund Freud

Members of one family of the fruit fly are called peacocks because they strut on the fruit.

Now that I'm a mother I understand being one means the most important thing in the world is keeping your child safe, well, happy.

But it was too late as Eve had an armful of chubby baby in foaming, lacy pink. Blonde curls in pink ribbons danced as Bella bounced. She said, "Gah," and grinned. "Okay. God. Okay. Why are you always smiling?" Eve demanded. "What do you know?