Quotes About Family

You are of me, Loreda, in a way that can never be broken. Not by words or anger or actions or time. I love you. I will always love you." She tightened her hold on Loreda's shoulders. "You taught me love. You, first in the whole world, and my love for you will outlive me. If you had not come back…

Kate placed her hand on her mother's. They both understood; every at-home mom in the world understood. Ultimately there were prices to be paid for the choices a woman made. "You're my hero, Mom," Kate said simply.

Leni's heart would always have a broken place. It didn't matter how you lost a parent or how great or shitty that parent was, a kid grieved forever. Matthew grieved for the mother he'd had. He figured Leni would grieve for the dad she wanted.

Believe me, Elsa, this little girl will love you as no one ever has Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and make you crazy and try your soul. Often all at the same time.

As a girl, she'd waited impatiently for this unexpected weather, prayed for it for months, and no wonder. Covered in snow, Firefly Lane looked like something out of a fairy tale. The kind of place where nothing could ever go wrong, where a girl should be able to simply tell her family that she'd changed her mind.

The truth was that the biggest danger of all was in her own home.

Lost. It makes it sound as if I misplaced my loved ones; perhaps I left them where they don't belong and then turned away, too confused to retrace my steps.

She sat there a long time, talking to her daddy as if he were sitting right beside her.

it turned out that a parent's disapproval was a powerful, lingering voice that shaped and defined one's self-image.

The sound of his voice reminds me that I am a mother and mothers don't have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.

Love is what remains when everything else is gone. This is what I should have told my children when we left Texas. What I will tell them tonight. Not that they will understand yet. How could they? I am forty years old, and I only just learned this fundamental truth myself.

she returned to them.

novel and in researching it.

Todo ese tiempo, papá le había estado enseñando a Leni los peligros del mundo exterior. Lo cierto era que el mayor peligro estaba dentro de su propia casa.

How do we make them pay?' 'You'll have to fight for it.' He paused, looked at her, trying to appear nonchalant. 'Now. tell me. kid, how's your mom?

locking up the house—their home—and driving away. The only slightly good news was that they weren't selling it. Someday, Dad promised, they'd return. The big things—furniture, art

Mom ladled the soap into wooden molds while Grandma kicked sand on the fire to extinguish it.

The first week without Jolene almost drove Michael into the ground. He'd had no idea how much there was to do around the house and with the kids.

It's true, Kathleen. Someday you'll see how smart I am." Her mom smiled and patted her hand. "If you're like the rest of us, it'll happen at about the same time you want me to babysit for the first time.

Or you, Papa," she said. "Or you.

Go to your room," Vianne said to Sophie. Whatever Isabelle was going to say, she didn't want Sophie to hear. Vianne eased the hat from her head and set down her empty basket. Her hands were shaking.

She couldn't breathe. Her own heart kept skipping beats, unreliable now that her father's had stopped. Please, God, please don't take him. Not yet Ã¢â'¬Â¦

hinterlands of a broken family.

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