Quotes About Family

My mother had to leave many traditions behind and the more time passed, the more they mattered to her.

An indictment of the asphyxiating myth of the model minority, The Family Chao is a compelling murder mystery, a love story, a legal drama, a meditation on internalized racism… a must-read

In dark times, when you're feeling homesick or defeated, there is really nothing like a good, steaming soup, and dumplings made from scratch.

Four months later, their mother was living with Buddhist nuns and Dagou had bulked up by thirty pounds.

We came to America to colonize the place for ourselves. That means spreading seed. Equal opportunity for fucking. You know what's the biggest disappointment of my life? Seeing my oldest son pussy-whipped by one white woman.

How can you say what depths of hatred people keep to themselves? The Skaers, for example. Do we know what the Skaers feel about your family's restaurant, what they think your parents' workaholism has done to drain their family businesses over the years? And there are others.

She's as bad as the most racially deprived white person fetishizing Asian culture. Her interest in Dagou, in the Chao family, is entirely due to her sense of deprivation after having been raised as racially Chinese in a well-meaning but white American family. Can't she get over it?

Just because your brother is not allowed to live his life, it doesn't mean you don't live yours," she says, with an uncharacteristically sage expression. "You get on with your own life." She puts a hand on his shoulder. "You're getting strong," she says. "Well, you need some time. Time to get over everything, and time to get used to the fact that Winnie is no longer on this earth.

Following the darkened, hushed corridor toward his mother's room, Dagou imagines a future menu for the night nurses. Winnie always said, A little food never hurts. These nurses might like the basics: chicken and broccoli, shrimp with pea pods, garlic eggplant, and house special lo mein. (But for his mother he will concoct a special bone soup with a beaten egg white, seaweed for iron, and black wood ears for lowering the blood pressure.)

Because he isn't cherished, he's allowed to aim beyond his parents' petty goals. He can leave all of them behind.

The old fellow gazed out at the empty tent, painted a soft green by the carbide lamps, and at the tables, now missing their tablecloths, and felt utterly desolate, imagining that this is what his funeral would be like: the tent would become a place of mourning, but there would be no dutiful sons or grandsons in mourning attire kneeling before his coffin, nothing but a few casual acquaintances playing mahjong through the night

The Bible is a love story that begins with a divorce. Everything from the third chapter of Genesis through the end of Revelation is the story of a betrayed lover wooing us back into His arms so we can enjoy the love of family forever.

Everyone is related, and everything is connected.

In all our lives there are hits, strikeouts, and the occasional home run. This book is dedicated to my two young sons, Chance King and his brother Cannon King, two of the cherished home runs of my life.

But, if one cuts more deeply, the lonesome dove is Newt, a lonely teenager who is the unacknowledged son of Captain Call and a kindly whore named Maggie, who is now dead. So the central theme of the novel is not the stocking of Montana but unacknowledged paternity. All of the Hat Creek Outfit, including particularly Augustus McCrae, want Call to accept the boy as his son.

He was tired of seeing his family only in dreams.

He remembered the cold nights in their Arkansas cabin when he was a boy—how his mother piled quilts on top of him and his brothers, how peaceful it seemed under the quilts. Then it seemed like sleep was one of the most wonderful things in life.

Well, we've never had a divorce in our family, Aurora said, but if we have to have one, Tomas is a good place to start.

the family got nervous about blood poisoning and persuaded he and Call to saw it off.

It wasn't merely damage done by the sun that was causing him to slip suddenly into Greek; it was the Scull dementia, damage from the broken seed. His father, Evanswood Scull, intermittently mad but a brilliant linguist, used to stomp into the nursery, thundering out passages in Latin, Greek, Icelandic, and Old Law French, a language which it was said that he was the only man in America to have a thorough mastery

My grandmother is old," Famous Shoes said. "She may want to tell me a few more stories before she dies.

I could hear them whispering how Granddad had gone to a better place. They could think so and go to hell; I didn't believe it. Not unless dirt is a better place than air.

Does he know he's your son?" "I suppose he does—I give him my horse," Call said, feeling that it was hell to have her, of all women, talk to him about the matter. "Your horse but not your name?" Clara said. "You haven't even given him your name?" "I put more value on the horse," Call said

Made weird children--will die proud. -Rachel Pealer