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Quotes About Family

So I'm supposed to stay with Josh because of you and Daddy and Kitty?
~ Jenny Han
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.
~ Jenny Han
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" -We'll Always Have Summer
~ Jenny Han
Hay una palabra coreana que me enseñó mi abuela. Se llama jung. Es un vínculo entre dos personas que no puede cortarse, incluso cuando el amor se convierte en odio.
~ Jenny Han
Like always, it was Conrad who dictated the mood of the house, how everyone else felt.
~ Jenny Han
Hay una palabra coreana que me enseñó mi abuela. Se llama jung. Es un vínculo entre dos personas que no puede cortarse, incluso cuando el amor se convierte en odio. Sigues conservando esos antiguos sentimientos por esa persona; no puedes librarte de ellos por completo; siempre guardarás un poco de ternura en tu corazón por esa persona.
~ Jenny Han
Don't mess with my son is what she was saying.
~ Jenny Han
Margot's off shopping for new boots with her friend Casey, Daddy's at work, and Kitty and I are lazing about watching TV when my phone buzzes next to me. It's a text from Peter. "Movie tonight?" I text back yes, exclamation point. Then I delete the exclamation point for sounding too eager. Though without the exclamation point, the yes seems completely unenthused. I settle on a smiley face and press send before I can obsess over it further.
~ Jenny Han
Besides my family, you're the most special person to me in the world.
~ Jenny Han
Thank God and Jesus for Christmas break. At least I have ten days before I have to back to school and face everyone.
~ Jenny Han
I don'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.
~ Jenny Han
When I was a little girl, rocking my little dolls, I remember thinking I would be the world's best mom, and so far I've done it.
~ Jenny McCarthy
Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine.
~ Jenny McCarthy
I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.
~ Jenny McCarthy
Dad will come back,' said Charlie quietly. When Mrs Bone turned to him, she didn't look sad at all, in fact she was smiling. 'You know, Charlie, I'm beginning to believe you,' she said. 'After what happened to Henry, I can believe almost anything.
~ Jenny Nimmo
Me?" She smiled. "I'm the lodestone of the house. I keep you all from flying off into the dark.
~ Jenny Nimmo
My parents were consistently inconsistent.
~ Jenny O'Connell
What would it be like to make it so late into life before trouble hit? To always have someone on the front porch, calling you to dinner? The husband doesn't have even a touch of this raised-by-wolvesness.
~ Jenny Offill
There is a picture of my mother holding me as a baby, a look of naked love on her face. For years, it embarrassed me. Now there is a picture of me with my daughter looking exactly the same way.
~ Jenny Offill
Also because I'm always saying he could quit his job if he wanted and we'll go somewhere cheap and live on rice and beans with our kid. My husband doesn't believe me about that last bit. And why should he? Once I spent $13 on a piece of cheese.
~ Jenny Offill
It is so easy now for the wife to be patient and kind to the daughter. She will never love anyone or anything more. Never. It is official.
~ Jenny Offill
I tell Eli I will take him out to eat at the diner. NO ANIMALS ALLOWED, the sign outside the restaurant reads. "But we are animals, right?" "Don't be a stickler," I tell him.
~ Jenny Offill
A few days later the baby sees the garden hose come on and we hear her laughing. All my life now appears to be one happy moment. This is what the first man in space said. Later, when it's time to go to bed, she puts both legs in one side of her footy pajamas and slyly waits for us to notice.
~ Jenny Offill
Do you know why I love you?" my daughter asks me. She is floating in the bathwater, her head lathered white. "Why" I say. "Because I am your mother," she tells me.
~ Jenny Offill