Quotes About Family

I didn't want to fall for anybody. It's so messy. I'm so happy it was you. I'm so happy to love you, Gulliver. So happy to know I'll have a life with you, a home, a family with you.

She glanced over, watching her mother deadhead roses.

That's what I used to tell her. And she'd say it's not the age, it's the seniority. She loves you. A lot. Feeling's mutual. What're you smiling at?

Poe, football star who had had scouts sniffing around him. Tough faced, tough bodied. He'd been the one to push a plate of spaghetti to her when she and Max had found the house in the snowy dark.

Children rip the heart right out of you. And it lies there all bruised and battered, still beating for them. No matter what.

Rowan." He came back to sit, so that she hid her trembling hands under the table. "My cousins are many. Here, in Ireland. In Wales, Cornwall. Some are Donovans, some Malones, some Rileys. And some are O'Mearas.

This is home, my own darling. It's for us to keep it, and all in it, safe. It's for me to teach you how. That's joy and duty.

wrong hands, the Volkovs will know I'm not only still

Being loved is exhilarating, exhausting. Like Christmas.

crèche was displayed on the mantel. Beneath it hung four

Tonight I look and see the daughter of my daughter, and the boy Eli once brought to me. And that hole closes again. I regret nothing. I'm ashamed of nothing. How could I be? Whatever happens, we'll go on. We have a wedding to plan

Delighted, she laughed. "Not that soon. Talk about boots-first. I need a fabulous dress, and I need Nan to be here. And I haven't met your family." "A lot of them are right in this house." "That's true. We won't wait too long, but long enough to do it right." "I have to buy you a ring. The boys were right, after all. I need to get you something shiny." "Absolutely.

My family's just as important as yours, and I've got as much money and prestige." "Money and prestige don't buy good manners. You aren't showing any at the moment.

That's the way some people do business. I don't. It was the tone that made Ty stop. He supposed somehow over the past months they'd become friends. Almost family. Near enough that he understood the guilt, and the frustration. Nobody's saying that, David. Nobody thinks that.

Gram and Pa never liked him. They gave him respect as my husband, as your father, but there was never any genuine affection there on either side.

But it's a wound that can't fully heal, isn't it, not to have the full love of those who made you. The indifference of Iona's parents, the full mess of Meara's." "Which is worse, do you think?

I may not know precisely how this sort of thing functions, but I understand perfectly well your family's opinion of me will be important." "My mother and sisters already like you." "They may tend in that direction, until I rudely attend the barbecue without a covered dish.

Da always said you'd be the good angel and I the bad. He was finally right about something.

Roibeard's keeping a watch on all, and Merlin's with him. But I'll be happier altogether when the six of us are together at home.

She sighed and put on a good sulk. Actually, she had no desire to get her nose pierced but she did want a third piercing in her left earlobe. Working down to it, or over to it, from the nose was good strategy. The kind, she thought, her father would appreciate if he knew about it. It's my body. Not until you're eighteen, it's not. Until that happy day, it's mine. Go nag your brother. I can't. I'm not speaking to him. She rolled onto her back on her father's

We'll have to keep on being disappointed in each other, won't we, Ma?

I'm so happy my son wanted me to jump out of a plane.

I was into third guesses with Theo and Maddy. Anyway, that's one of the reasons I opted to buy the van and drive cross-country instead of dumping us all in a plane. It gave us some time. Nothing like a three-thousand-mile drive in an enclosed vehicle to cement a family unit—if you live through it. It was very brave of you. You want to talk courage? He drove easily up the lane to the villa. I've been chief taste-tester on this wine experiment Maddy's conducting. It's brut

Then you'd best get started." Millie eyed the birds, rubbing her hands together. "All right, ladies, let's boot the men along and get started ourselves." They had their feast, a happy family group, roasted wild pheasant seasoned with tarragon, stuffed with oranges, apples, shallots, and