Quotes About Family

He's a really good Dad. And he tries hard. He doesn't always understand us, but he tries, and that's the important thing.

Because, it was more than just a house. It was every summer, every boat ride, every sunset. It was Susannah.

My big sister knows how to hurt me best.

I run water over a hand towel and I wet my face with it. My mom used to do this for me when I was sick. She'd put an ice-cold washcloth over my forehead and she'd switch it out with a fresh one when it wasn't cold anymore. I wish my mom was here.

When Daddy asks me what I want for Christmas, I am just going to say, 'Pick any one of these breeds and we'll be good.

It's like I came back and there was a whole new family here that I wasn't a part of.

I'm lucky to have had her for as long as I did.

Even though Margot isn't a loud person, it feels quiet at home. Empty, somehow.

I've never seen a man so devoted to his family. You three are the pearls in his crown, you know? And that's how it should be. A girl's relationship with her father is the most important male relationship of her life.

I don't think a girl ever gets over losing her mom. I'm an adult and it's completely normal and expected for my mom to be dead, but I still feel orphaned sometimes.

My older sister has a way of sounding right.

Mama sewed the hole up straight away. I didn't even know she could sew. I almost didn't trust her with it because she'd had half a bottle of wine with supper, but she did a good job.

How is it possible that my sane and reasonable DNA created such a crazy daughter?

He was marrying my girl, and I couldn't do anything about it. I just had to watch it happen, because he was my brother, because I promised. Take care of him, Connie. I'm counting on you.

think it was because they cost sixty dollars, but Mama would never admit that there was something we couldn't afford. She's a good one for making excuses when it comes to spending money.) Sherilyn's bustling around the food table in a zebra-print tankini. The boys—Kyle, Jack, Tommy, and Hugh Sasser—are in

Your mom makes your bed, doesn't she?" I ask him, leaning back against the pillows. "Yes," he says, without an ounce of shame.

What are you up to tonight, bean?" my mother asked me. I loved it when she called me bean. It reminded me of being six years old and falling asleep in her bed.

Ver a Conrad proteger a Jeremiah me hizo sentir una oleada de amor por él; sentí que la ola de mi pecho me inundaba.

Susannah told me that when I was born, she knew I was destined for one of her boys. She said it was fate. My mother, who didn't normally go in for that kind of thing, said it would be perfect, as long as I'd had at least a few loves before I settled down. Actually, she said "lovers," but that word made me cringe. Susannah put her hands on my cheeks and said, "Belly, you have my unequivocal blessing. I'd hate to lose my boys to anyone else.

I could never be with someone who didn't understand how important my family is to me.

I didn't want to make the same mistakes my parents made. I didn't want my love to fade away one day like an old scar. I wanted it to burn forever.

I'M THE ONE WHO GOES to the airport to pick up Margot and Ravi,

you thank you!" According to Daddy, he picked the puppy up from the animal shelter

I wasn't in Cousins. Conrad and I weren't together, and Susannah was dead.