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Quotes About Family

I had asked her for help, and she had sent me to the lions. I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.
~ Laura Whitcomb
How about giving your old man a break here, huh, Chirp? Chirp is dead, I hear myself say and watch the flat words destroy his pleasure. You killed her, and now you have to deal with me because I'm what's left.
~ Laura Wiess
Meredith's a big girl. She knows how babies are made, don't you, Mer? I nod, numb and weary. 'Course I do. Same guy that taught you taught me.
~ Laura Wiess
So I leave proof of my existence behind me like a snail trail with the small hope that years of talking at me will someday soften her enough to talk with me, that she'll finally pull the knife from my chest and say yes, we are better off without him. That what happened wasn't my fault and from now on she will thrust herself between me and danger, and shout NO.
~ Laura Wiess
Nicholas nodded.All right.He stays.But I want to see him and speak to him first. Are you going to give him a hug?Lucian drawled,Tell him everything's going to be all right?Share some feelings perhaps?
~ Laura Wright
Above him stood the angel in white,the one who had come to his aid,taken down the males who had cornered and beat him. Who are you?Nicholas uttered hoarsely. My name is Lucian,said the angel.I am your brother.
~ Laura Wright
All right, cow patties, I say we forget about why we're in this town, the new addition to the family, and what lies ahead, and invite a few of these hometown fillies to our table and see what happens.
~ Laura Wright
If life—and my job—have taught me anything, it should be that every family is a mille-feuille of pathos and neuroses, sins and secrets. Someday I'll stop assuming that everyone except me grew up feeling at home in their homes.
~ Laura Zigman
the painful irony of your mother fighting for inclusion that doesn't include you is still decades away.
~ Laura Zigman
She should have remembered that people have given everything they own, everything they are, to be taken care of, and to have their pain gone. It's the lure of cults: the promise of a good family; it's what people think love is, but love isn't absence of pain, it's a hand to hold while you're going through it.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Neal stood, kicking free of the clinging curtain. I'll kill you. I drew the firestar and pointed it at him. I don't think so. She is pack now, Sylvie said. You fight one of us, and you fight all of us. Edward raised his eyebrows at me. What is going on, Anita? I think I've been adopted, I said.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Love mattered, in the end. A house without love would always fall, maybe not today or tomorrow, but in the end without love nothing could endure.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
but there were no faerie godmothers. There were only mothers and grandmothers, and there was no magic wand to wave over a person's heart and make it all better. The fairy tales lied. ...Fucking Brothers Grimm.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
If I don't say it enough, Jean-Claude, I love you, I love seeing your face across the table while we eat, and watching you root at Cynric's football games, and watching you read bedtime stories to Matthew when he stays with us, and a thousand surprising things, all of it, its you, and I love you. You will make me cry. A smart friend told me that it's okay to cry, sometimes you're so happy it spills out your eyes.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Everyone else goes home for nostalgia, and happy memories. I end up feeling like I never fit in with the family as a child, and being older hasn't changed that.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
on birth control tells you something
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Je nelegální zahrávat si s mrtvými tÄ›ly bez svolení rodiny.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Don't make light of one of your better qualities. You love your people like a mother is supposed to love her children. You want what's best for them, even if that makes you uncomfortable, even if you don't like their choices.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
So are the governor's plans to run for president on a family conservative ticket. You can't have your son being an adulterer with a vampire's wife, and even worse marrying a vampire, and have it play well in the press.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
It is not merely happiness we all seek. We seek some place where we belong. For the lucky few, we find it in childhood with our own families. But for most of us we spend our adult lives seeking that place or person or organization that makes us feel that we are important, that we matter, and that without us something would go undone and undoable. We all need to feel that we are irreplaceable.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Edward annuì e, nello scrutarmi, i suoi occhi s'intenerirono un poco. «So che secondo te dovrei lasciare Donna e i ragazzi. Hai sempre pensato che fosse una pessima idea.» «Può anche darsi... Eppure tu li ami, e loro amano te. L'amore è difficile da trovare, Edward, e non bisogna mai gettarlo via soltanto perché è una pessima idea.»
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Then give your auntie a kiss." What else could I do? I put a light kiss upon those lips, and she slipped her arm through mine, patting my hand as if we were the best of friends. "Come, Meredith, let us go slay our enemies." I
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I'd grown up, and I was finally my father's daughter. Some choices you make with your heart, some with your head, but when in doubt choose head over heart—it will keep you alive.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton