Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit on the porch and sing them on mild evenings.

Marilynne Robinson
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Despite what you may think, families will not be broken. They will always come back together after time has passed and everything has cooled off. If you want to break them, curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit on the porch and sing them on mild evenings.

Source: Housekeeping

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