Quotes About Family

Luca even hears Abuela lightly scolding them all, not because she actually disapproves, Luca realizes, but because a casual reprimand is Abuela's way of participating, and that is the thing, really,

every family tree has at least one crooked branch.

none of them had chosen to marry Sebastián, or to take on the risks of his profession as their own. Only she had done that, and now her family had paid for her choice. The fears of her past and the horrors of her present are so mixed up they feel like the unmatching pieces of a rompecabezas, like she's trying to piece together things that were never meant to fit.

Beto is afraid of turning eleven, because it feels like a treachery to his brother. "But I guess it would be worse to not turn eleven, right?

So Lydia grew up with a mother who emphasized the importance of being independent and saving for the future.

none of them had chosen to marry Sebastián, or to take on the risks of his profession as their own. Only she had done that, and now her family had paid for her choice.

She's been afraid for so long that now she can't catch up to the facts: it was already him, and the rest of her family. It really did happen; all those years of worry did not prevent it.

So we're leaving today, Papi. We are already gone. And you must be very careful and look after yourself, please. We are taking you with us in our hearts, and we will call you when we get to el norte, Papi. And we'll send for you when we have jobs, and you can come to us, and you can bring Mami and Abuela, too, and we will all be together again as it is meant to be.

Luis Alberto Urrea, Óscar Martínez, Sonia Nazario, Jennifer Clement, Aída Silva Hernández, Rafael Alarcón, Valeria Luiselli, and Reyna Grande.

TODA MI FAMILIA ESTÁ MUERTA POR MI CULPA

perímetro. Lydia move o corpo na direção dessa

and Soledad and I would gather herbs and dry them and bundle them for Papi to sell in the market when he had a day off, and that's how we passed our days.

Jeanine Cummins

from the glass, 'Abuela,' and renews his attack

It's unusual in a culture where adult children take care of their aging parents that Lydia's mother even had a savings account.

Jeanine Cummins

that line his abuela's street. He's

which she leaves)

This is not the kind of thing that happens, ever. Not even here. Do you know anyone else who's lost sixteen family members in one day?" Meredith glares at him, but he plows ahead. "We have to help them. If the suffering of our friends means

She thought that here in el norte, she'd have to worry more about Border Patrol, about the possibility of Luca being taken from her, and less about random men with guns enforcing their own decrees.

La distance biologique entre un chimpanzé sur son île du Parc zoologique de Paris et l'enfant qui le découvre, émerveillé, est bien plus courte que celle qui sépare le chimpanzé des macaques et des babouins qui s'agitent dans leur enclos, de l'autre côté de l'allée. Si le zoo hébergeait encore des gorilles, aux heures d'ouverture les plus proches parents seraient rassemblés : chimpanzés, gorilles et visiteurs.

Oh ! Franz, ce que tu peux être poule mouillée parfois ! Tu n'as donc pas envie de participer à ce grand bouleversement qui se prépare, de sortir de ta cage, de prendre ton envol ? Rappelle-toi que tu es le fils d'un Aigle ! Où sont tes ailes ? - Je ne suis pas le fils d'un Aigle, mais d'un vautour, qui pendant vingt ans s'est nourri de cadavres. Du moins c'est ainsi qu'on me le présente ici.

And I don't know if Batty's gotten over it yet,' said Skye. Mr. Penderwick looked out the window to where Batty was playing vampires with Hound. Hound was on his back, trying to wiggle out of the black towel Batty had tied around his neck. Batty was leaping over Hound's water bowl, shrieking, 'Blood, blood!' 'She looks all right,' he said.

Parents almost always want what's best for their children. They just don't always know what that is.