Quotes About Family

If I have learned anything as a mother, it's that your dreams are also your children's dreams. They need to know that your hopes and your dreams are achievable and not to be set aside. It's like they say: If mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

The people you loved, they were always there with you, she had learned.

The peasants knew that a spoiled son did more harm to a family than a dead one, and they kept themselves from indulging him too much.

She wished she had something like baseball that she could talk about with her daughter—a safe subject they could visit without subtext or aggression.

The penalties incurred for the mistakes you made had to be paid out in full to the members of your family

Etsuko grew silent, utterly transfixed by the realization that how she saw herself was actually how her children saw her, too. They thought she was a monster.

It was much smaller than her own, but everyone seemed closer, as if each member were organically attached to one seamless body, whereas her enormous extended family felt like cheerfully mismatched Lego bricks in a large bucket.

The penalties incurred for the mistakes you made had to be paid out in full to the members of your family. But she didn't believe that she could ever discharge these sums.

Every child should be wanted

It was then that Ella realized she had no mother who'd search for her in this way. She was surprised by how bitterly she felt this lack-for a contingency that would never occur.

And Mozasu? He is Baek Isak's son? He doesn't look like me." Sunja

Your grandmother Sunja and great-aunt Kyunghee visit me on Saturdays. Did you know that? They pray for me, too. I don't understand the Jesus stuff, but it's something holy to have people touch you when you're sick. The nurses here are afraid to touch me. Your grandmother Sunja holds my hands, and your great-aunt Kyunghee puts cool towels on my head when I get too hot. They're kind to me, though I'm a bad person—

The people you loved, they were always there with you. - Pachinko, Book III - Chapter 21

There was consolation: The people you loved, they were always there with you, she learned. Sometimes, she could be in front of a train kiosk or the window of a book store, and she could feel Noa's small hand when he was a boy, and she would close her eyes and think of his sweet grassy smell and remember that he had always tried his best. At those moments, it was good to be alone to hold on to him.

Every year, she cleaned the graves of her siblings; her

There was consolation: The people you loved, they were always there with you, she had learned. Sometimes, she could be in front of a train kiosk or the window of a bookstore, and she could feel Noa's small hand when he was a boy, and she would close her eyes and think of his sweet grassy smell and remember that he had always tried his est. At those moments, it was good to be alone to hold on to him.

That was the whole point of money, wasn't it, to be able to get your kid whatever he needed?

Sunja and Yangjin were able to cook the sweets and handle the customers without him. It was never that busy then. It was a late fall afternoon, when business was exceedingly slow and the market women were busy talking with each other since there were so few customers;

Ele amava a filha da mesma maneira que os pais dele o tinham amado, mas deu por si a não conseguir negar-lhe fosse o que fosse. Sunja era uma rapariga de aparência normal, com um riso fácil e uma boa disposição, mas aos olhos do pai ela era linda e ele maravilhava-se com a perfeição dela. Poucos pais no mundo valorizavam as filhas tanto como Hoonie, que parecia viver unicamente para a fazer sorrir.

Sunja wanted her sister-in-law to make Changho wait, but it wouldn't have been Kyunghee if she had made him do so. Changho had loved someone who would not betray her husband, and perhaps that was why he had loved her.

Isak had never wanted to live so much, and now, just when he wanted to live until he was very old, he'd been sent home to die. "I have two sons," he said. "I have two sons. Noa and Mozasu. May the Lord bless my sons.

The big secret that he kept from his mother, aunt, and even his beloved uncle was that Noa did not believe in God anymore. God had allowed his gentle, kindhearted father to go to jail even though he had done nothing wrong. For two years, God had not answered Noa's prayers, though his father had promised him that God listens very carefully to the prayers of children.

Her mother had shrunk.

At the crowded bar, men were drinking and making jokes, but there hadn't been a soul in that squalid room—smelling of burnt dried squid and alcohol—who wasn't worried about money and facing the terror of how he was supposed to take care of his family in this strange and difficult land.