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Quotes About Family

It turns out that Molly wasn't her mother's daughter in that respect. Charity was like the MacGuyver of the kitchen. She could whip up a five-course meal for twelve from an egg, two spaghetti noodles, some household chemicals, and a stick of chewing gum. Molly ... Molly once burned my egg. My boiled egg. I don't know how.
~ Jim Butcher
Never touch my brother on his fucking birthday.
~ Jim Butcher
Bob wasn't precisely a friend to me but... I was used to him. In a way he was family, the mouthy, annoying, irritable cousin who was always insulting you but who was definitely at Thanksgiving dinner. I had never considered the possibility that one day he might be something else.
~ Jim Butcher
Hello Angel,'Michael rumbled, and leaned over to give the woman a kiss on the cheek. She accepted it with all the loving tolerance of a Komodo dragon. 'Don't you hello angel me. Do you know what I had to go through to find a baby-sitter, get all the way out here, get the money together and then get the sword back for you?
~ Jim Butcher
Am I going to be able to provide a real home for her, man? An education? A real life? What's her college application going to look like: 'Raised on Spooky Island by wizard with GED, please help'?
~ Jim Butcher
I blinked slowly at that notion. "A honeymoon free of your mother-in-law." "Worth more than gold or jewels," Hades said.
~ Jim Butcher
Predator is not property," Grimm said in a calm, level tone. "She is not my possession. She is my home. Her crew are not my employees. They are my family. And if you threaten to take my home and destroy the livelihood of my family again, Commodore, I will be inclined to kill you where you stand.
~ Jim Butcher
DÄ›ti. Musíte je mít rádi. Já se jich nem?žu nabažit. TroÅ¡ku soli, pokapat citronem - dokonalé.
~ Jim Butcher
Good, because your mother says you're not getting out of helping in the kitchen just because you're a faerie princess now. She got you those long kitchen gloves so that you can still wash dishes.
~ Jim Butcher
But I've noticed that people got the most irrational whenever family was around—while simultaneously losing their ability to distinguish reason from insanity. I call it familial dementia.
~ Jim Butcher
I knew what it was like to have holes in my life in the shape of people who should have been there.
~ Jim Butcher
And you both hurt each other terribly, because you're family. Because what you say and do matters so much more than anyone else.
~ Jim Butcher
Graves aren't for the dead. They're for the loved ones the dead leave behind them. Once those loved ones have gone, once all the lives that have touched the occupant of any given grave had ended, then the grave's purpose was fulfilled and ended.
~ Jim Butcher
And you both hurt each other terribly, because you're family. Because what you say and do matters so much more than anyone else." She leaned down and put her cheek against my forehead. "Listen to me. I know it hurts right now. But the reason it hurts so much is because you care about each other so much. And that pain will eventually fade. But you'll both still care.
~ Jim Butcher
Despite my struggles, Mister had been an understanding soul, and I eventually came to realize that I was a part of his little family, and by his gracious consent was allowed to remain in his apartment. Cats. Go figure. I
~ Jim Butcher
I thought about my father. I usually do, when I get that low. He was a good man, a generous man, a hopeless loser.
~ Jim Butcher
The man closed his eyes for a moment. Then he whispered, "My little girl was born early yesterday. She's still in the hospital. They couldn't move her." "Well," I said. "That makes it pretty simple. But that's not the same thing as easy, is it.
~ Jim Butcher
Family complicates everything. Dammit.
~ Jim Butcher
Because I know my daughter, she said. And I know very well that the only way to absolutely ensure that she pursues any given course of action is for me to forbid her to do so.
~ Jim Butcher
Trite but true—you don't know what you have until it's gone. People change. The world changes. And sooner or later you lose people you care about. If you don't mind some advice from someone who doesn't know much about families, I can tell you this: Don't take yours for granted. It might feel like all of them will always be there. But they won't." She
~ Jim Butcher
Home is where you embrace the present and plan the future.
~ Jim Butcher
But mostly, it ends badly when wizards try to stay too close to their kin.
~ Jim Butcher
I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching—they are your family.
~ Jim Butcher
Home, like love, hate, war, and peace, is one of those words that is so important that it doesn't need more than one syllable.
~ Jim Butcher