Quotes About Kinship

Death makes the whole world kin. Rowan wondered if a world without death would then make everyone stranger.

The weird thing is, hearing stories like this makes me feel a kind of kinship with the Almighty, because it proves that even God has psychotic episodes.

Death, as they say, doesn't just make all the world kin, it makes all religions one.

anger against a kinsman was felt in the flesh, not in the marrow

Faced with parts of ourselves that we do not recognize, would like perhaps not to recognize, we deny the kinship, and often lean away from the new and into the old, accentuating the familiar qualities that complement the strange new ones.

I guess we're really brothers, aren't we? Don't know what that means, except it means that some of the same things we remember.

In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at night, and raised her up in the morning, for when she dragged herself off to bed, having spent another day without his presence, her heart beat like a gloved fist against her ribs. And in the morning, long before she was fully awake, she felt a longing so bitter and tight it yanked her out of a sleep swept clean of dreams.

Cautionary Tale: Blood is seldom thicker than blood.

We are among the first peoples in human history who do not broadly inherit religious identity as a given, a matter of kin and tribe, like hair color and hometown. But the very fluidity of this—the possibility of choice that arises, the ability to craft and discern one's own spiritual bearings—is not leading to the decline of spiritual life but its revival.

An idea handed to me in the earliest years of my life of conversation comes back with new resonance—the idea of a kinship between the spirituality of the scientist and the spirituality of the mystic: a constant endeavor to discern truth while staying open to everything you do not yet, cannot yet, know.

It doesn't bother you that your canine brethren are being paraded around show rings like slaves?" "My canine brethren?" I said. "I don'thave any canine brethren." "How can you say that! You're a werewolf." "That's right. I'm a werewolf, not a poodle. What makes you think I have any kinship with dogs?

Not till the fire is dying in the grate,Look we for any kinship with the stars.Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold,And the great price we pay for it full worth;We have it only when we are half earth.

Some were bound to me by vows and some by blood, but they were all my brothers.

Kings have no friends,' Stannis said bluntly, 'only subjects and enemies.' 'And brothers,' a cheerful voice called out.

We've changed kins since then, some of us twice. No one cares, no one remembers.

And so do his sisters and his cousins and his aunts! His sisters and his cousins Whom he reckons up by dozens, And his aunts!

Affection may not be love, but it is at least its cousin.

as well as Assail and his two cousins, Fang I and II.

It appeared, after decades of being without a tribe, that he and his brother had found theirs.

You've got some of me in you

Xcor swallowed through a tight throat. "You…are my brother?" And yet was confirmation truly needed? Tohrment was right, those eyes…were the same shape and color as his own. "I am," Tohr affirmed roughly. "I am your blooded kin." All

Two keen minds that they are, they took to each other at the drop of a hat. Two piercing eyes glanced into two piercing eyes--the holy con-man with the shining mind, and the sorrowful poetic con-man with the dark mind that is Carlo Marx.

A western kinsman of the sun, Dean. Although my aunt warned me that he would get me in trouble, I could hear a new call and see a new horizon, and believe it at my young age; and a little bit of trouble or even Dean's eventual rejection of me as a buddy, putting me down, as he would later, on starving sidewalks and sickbeds—what did it matter? I was a young writer and I wanted to take off.

Now it happens that I am a fluid sort of an organism, with sufficient kinship with life to fit myself in 'most anywhere.