Quotes About Family

Desde pequeño, ni siquiera tenía la menor idea de los sufrimientos de mi propia familia o de lo que pensaba. Sólo estaba bien al corriente de mis propios miedos y malestares. En algún momento, me convertí en un niño que nunca podía decir la verdad.

Father was talking with a guest in the next room, and my words were meant for him. Needless to say, they never reached his ear, let alone his heart.

Everyone kept saying that I was the ugliest boy in the family. And if they had known how fussy I was about clothes, they would surely have had a good laugh at my expense. I pretended not to care about my appearance, and this seemed to do the trick. I gave the impression of being dull and uncouth, no doubt about it. It was awful hearing them remark over and over how ugly I was.

But those people who live life with a practical heart in actuality make us feel quite sad. I do not dislike my brother in any way, but I do not feel the kind of intimacy that would make me want to share everything that I feel with him. I feel the same way towards my father.

Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband's, if she has a shining pride, they become a holy mother and child.

Go ahead, stare at us. Our family is beautiful.

I had the feeling that were Mother to die, my own flesh would melt away with her. From now on, I thought, I will forget everything else except prepararing all kinds of delicious things for Mother.

Este anciano es un gran aficionado al sake. Un gran bebedor suele ser, en la mayoría de los hogares, un hombre solitario. Decidir si bebe porque es un solitario o si se ha vuelto solitario porque el resto de la familia le ha dado de lado por ser bebedor es tan difícil como dar una palmada y determinar cuál de las dos manos es la que ha sonado...

Father," I tried calling out. Father. Father, the sunset afterglow is beautiful.

Divorce is an epidemic that causes as much pain as any disease.

You've got to be taughtBefore it's too lateBefore you are six, or seven, or eightTo hate all the people your relatives hateYou've got to be carefully taught.

The house in which the fourteen sisters of Emilio Montez O'brien lived, radiated femininity.

Sober, he would regard his wife with amor—the kind of amor the oldest sisters, Margarita and Isabel, knew took place at the end of the evening, when they were all supposed to be asleep and not listening for bedroom noises, agitated springs, gasping, rocking movements, moans of pleasure, or any other such unparental sounds, drifting down the halls, as if they were wall-less and not a single cicada nor a rushing wind existed in all the world.

Oscar Hijuelos

Consuelo: Away from them, I realised that they formed a circle, or rather a net in which they were enmeshed together. I was the only one out of it. Being near them only made me feel more alone.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

I can't find my mother

Por suerte uno tiene madre, el buen lugar al que parece que siempre queremos volver.

unavoidable repetition of "family life" (with intergenerational conflicts, sibling rivalry, "primal scene" material, etc.)

a town that smelled of chicken guts, hog manure, and rampant incest, which seemed to be the three main industries.

Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.