Quotes About Family

Lordul Edward È™i fratele s?u luau aer în parcul Gattenden. Lordul Edward lua aer plimbîndu-se. Al cincilea marchiz lua aer într-un fotoliu pe rotile, tras de un m?gar mare, cenuÈ™iu. Marchizul era infirm. "Asta nu împiedic?, din fericire, s?-mi umble mintea", îi pl?cea lui s? spun?. Mintea îi umblase haotic, de colo-colo, toat? viaÈ›a. M?garul cenuÈ™iu mergea încet, foarte încet.

Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channeling of impulse and energy. But everyone belongs to everyone else, he concluded, citing the hypnopaedic proverb. The students nodded, emphatically agreeing with a statement which upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark had made them accept, not merely as true, but as axiomatic , self-evident, utterly indisputable.

Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy.

he was succeeded by his grandson, who was an ass ? but made up for it by being shortlived.

He had the enormous memory of royal personnages and family retainers - the memory of those who never read, or reason, or reflect, and whose minds therefore are wholly free to indulge in retrospect.

Cuando decía «abuela» no era una palabra recitada, era un grito que le venía de dentro y desde lejos.

Y entiendo también que su casa somos nosotras, que si sigue ahí aguantando es porque cree que todavía no estamos enteras sin ella y que no se irá hasta dejarnos bien, hasta que que su casa esté bien vivida. Ordenada. Hasta que haya paz.

Perché non mi manchi, se sei mio padre? Perché non so chi sei, papà?

LLEGAR A CASA ES ir los cuatro hasta el árbol, cada uno a su paso, cada uno con lo vivido y con lo que nos queda juntos. Pendientes todos del camino y de la sombra de los demás. Navegamos juntos.

Por qué nos costará tanto decir las cosas en esta familia?», quiero decirle. «¿Por qué se nos da tan mal compartir lo que sale mal? ¿Es vergüenza? ¿Es miedo? ¿Qué es?»

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

Home is where somebody notices your absence.

It is a well-known fact that kings and clowns frequently call each other cousin.

Ci disarma, infatti, l'inclinazione a pensare che la nostra vita sia, innanzitutto, un frammento conclusivo della vita dei nostri genitori, solo, affidato alla nostra cura. Come se ci avessero incaricato, in un momento di stanchezza, di tenere un attimo quell'epilogo per loro prezioso; ci si aspettava da noi che lo restituissimo, prima o poi, intatto. L'avrebbero poi ricollocato a posto, formando la rotondità di una vita completa, la loro.

Aunque su padre había imaginado para él un brillante porvenir en el ejército. Hervé Joncour había acabado ganándose la vida con una insólita ocupación, tan amable que, por singular ironía, traslucía un vago aire femenino. Para vivir, Hervé Joncour compraba y vendía gusanos de seda.

It wasn't easy to develop a healthy personality when the canals of your flagellate chambers were held in common with an invaginated mother, incestuous sisters and a bisexual father. When the only anatomical features on which you could construct an identity were the gastral cavity and the aperture of your osculum. The tragedy of being a vegetable was that you couldn't commit suicide. The advantage of being a sponge was that you could drown your sorrows.

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

People usually define family by blood ties but I don't see it that way. I think family are the people you can rely on, the people you know who will back you up when you need it. People who can rely on you.

Other attempts appear as scars, weals, parentheses in conversation, absent days in his diary. But, at the same time, according to Stuart's weird sense of etiquette on such subjects, only one son in a family is allowed to kill himself, else it puts too much strain on the parents, and his brother, Gavvy, like Jacob in the Old Testament, has stolen Stuart's birthright.

Daughters could survive a powerful mother, but boys found it almost impossible. Such boys were often severely damaged and spent the rest of their lives running away from their mothers, or from anybody who remotely reminded them of their mothers; either that, or they became their mothers, in a desperate, misguided act of psychological self defence.

the real poison within families is not the poison that you put in your food, but the poison that grows up in the heart when people are jealous of one another and cannot speak these feelings and drain out the poison that way.

All suspects should be given the chance to telephone their lawyers or their mothers, and it would not be surprising if they chose to call their mothers. After all, your mother is fall more likely to believe in your innocence than your lawyer.

Nobody went to bed at seven in Paris, even French children. Les enfants stayed up late at night, he had heard, eating with the adults, sipping red wine, and discussing the latest books and films.