Quotes About Family

while the father storms through adjacent rooms ranting with the force of kingdom come, not caring anymore what might snap us in its jaw

Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just... survive. Outlive me, please.

BARBARA: Johnna . . . what did my father say to you? (Pause.) JOHNNA: He talked a lot about his daughters . . . his three daughters, and his granddaughter. That was his joy. BARBARA: Thank you. That makes me feel better. Knowing that you can lie.

MATTIE FAE: I don't believe you. Watchin' the baseball game and drinkin' beers. Don't you have any sense of what's going on around you? This situation is fraught. CHARLIE: Am I supposed to sit here like a statue? You're drinking whiskey. MATTIE FAE: I'm having a cocktail. CHARLIE: You're drinking straight whiskey. MATTIE FAE: Just . . . show a little class.

Now think of it this way: which do you think would be better for Dottie, havin' ten thousand dollars so maybe she could go to that Amazon school, or havin' a beat-up, old, ugly, naggy, alcoholic mother for another twenty years or so?

CHARLIE: So you can't even see Ivy's point? MATTIE FAE: No. CHARLIE: That Little Charles and Beverly share some kind of . . . complication. MATTIE FAE: Honey, you have to be smart to be complicated. CHARLIE: That's our boy. Are you saying our boy isn't smart? MATTIE FAE: Yes, that's what I'm saying.

I think my parents did a better job of raising me than I did of raising my own kids.

KAREN: What do you want me to say? BARBARA: Tell him we got a sick woman here. VIOLET: You can't do this! This is my house! This is my house! BARBARA: You don't get it, do you? (With a burst of adrenaline, she strides to Violet, towers over her) I'M RUNNING THINGS NOW! (Blackout.)

BARBARA: Lot of fish in the sea. Surely you can rule out the one single man in the world you're related to. IVY: I happen to love the man I'm related— BARBARA: Fuck love, what a crock of shit. People can convince themselves they love a painted rock.

BARBARA: Right. (Beat) You've known about Daddy and Mattie Fae all these years. VIOLET: Oh, sure. I never told them I knew. But your father knew. He knew I knew. He always knew I knew. But we never talked about it. I chose the higher ground.

Violet really has a way of putting you in attack mode, you know it? BARBARA: She doesn't have anything to do with it. BILL: Don't you believe it. You feel such rage for her that you can't help dishing it my direction— BARBARA: I swear to God, you psychoanalyze me right now, I skin you.

MATTIE FAE: Sure, an auction's a fine idea— VIOLET: Some things, though, like the silver, that's worth a pretty penny. But if you like I'll sell it to you, cheaper'n I might get in an auction. BARBARA: Or you might never get around to the auction and then we can just have it for free after you die. IVY: Barbara . . .

I deal with my sons like young men. If they have a problem with something, they come to me. I am the type of dad that will drop everything I am doing for them, and always tell them to talk to me about it.

My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.

My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong.

It's something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it.

So yeah, maybe this will be the rest of our lives. Pot roast and Diet Cokes and my parents making eyes at each other. As for those slaps and punches and hateful words, we'll just sweep those under the rug or wherever they can go.

I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years.

I can't say for sure, because I have no experience, but -- well, is this what family is like? The feeling that everyone's connected, that with one piece missing the whole thing's broken?

I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma

Milligan now acted as if he were the happiest man alive - and perhaps he was. Having so long ago exited his life as a father, he had now, at long last, entered it again.

Sorry it took me so long, Katie-Cat," said her father.

Nicholas lay with his hands on his chest, thinking how hollow it felt, like an empty gourd. He had never missed having a family, though he had wanted one all his life.

Mom" didn't feel quite right , Reynie decided. Why not use the Tamil word? He'd heard her refer to her own mother as "Amma," but whether this meant "mom" or "mother," he wasn't sure. Reynie felt a flutter of happy anticipation.