So much had never been explained to her. They were that kind of family. Things necessary to know were passed along brother to brother, sister to sister, and this sufficient for most purposes, despite inevitable error and sensationalism.
Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.
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Leslye Walton
No true...father would be unconcerned about discord in his family that may cause it to disintegrate in his absence...
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Janvier ChouteuChando
And yeah, I know most people would think it weird that two guy friends touch as much as we do, but when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too. This is how we work. I hope you get...
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Patrick Ness
No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time
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Jonathan Safran Foer
But marrying within one's own family can get monotonous. One has heard all the same family stories, knows all the jokes and all the same recipes. No novelty.
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Margaret George
More Quotes By Marilynne Robinson
Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.
There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.
When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.
I felt, as I have often felt, that my failing the truth could have no bearing at all on the Truth itself, which could never conceivably be in any sense dependent on me or on anyone.
There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse or parable of an embracing, incomprehensible reality. It makes no sense at all because it is the eternal breaking in...
