100 Quotes About Family Relationship

Family is where you start, family is where you finish. No matter what the family unit looks like, it should be a place of love, security, and support. Family is not just about what happens in the house, but also about what happens between the people who live in it. These family quotes are inspired by all the important things that come with being part of a family unit.

Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.
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Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people. Leslye Walton
No true...father would be unconcerned about discord in his family...
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No true...father would be unconcerned about discord in his family that may cause it to disintegrate in his absence... Janvier ChouteuChando
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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 to choose your family and I hope it means as much to you as mine does to me. Patrick Ness
No father knows that he is carrying his son up...
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No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time Jonathan Safran Foer
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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. Margaret George
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She took comfort in the familiarity of his smell, knowing that if she lost all her possessions and her home, at least she would have her family. Sage Steadman
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Life was good. Everything was going right. It was almost scaring him because usually when things were going this well it was the calm before the storm hit. Michelle Sutton
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Family is a permanent adhesive that creates a lifetime bond. Conrad Brooks
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Life is real, not ideal. Heather Muzik
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One is not to win the world, he has to win the home (family). Dada Bhagwan
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The ice cold fear I’d felt, not knowing if Wyatt was alive, pressed into the wall with other girls and surrounded by guys who were unspeakably brave, hit my body again in a wave. This was trauma–the gift that keeps on giving. Laura Anderson Kurk
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Live today. You never know when tomorrow will be a day too late. Rochelle Carlton
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I suppose men, even myself, are perpetually boys. The sons of parents who provide the staples of what makes up a life– a home, an example of what it means to be human, however fucked up that may be. We are molded by impressions and an example, single days that stick out, and wounds that split us open and never close. We take on other people’s pain and sometimes make them ours. M. Spio
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In the temple, I sit on the cool floor next to Grandfather, beneath the stern benevolence of the goddess's glance. Grandfather is clad in only a traditional silk dhoti--no fancy modern clothes for him. That's one of the things I admire about him, how he is always unapologetically, uncompromisingly himself. His spine is erect and impatient; white hairs blaze across his chest. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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She would seize every opportunity to dive into the bathroom, in a swirl of white towels, and once in there she was as hard to dislodge as a limpet from a rock. Gerald Durrell
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Day blame ornery youngins. L.Douglas Muncy
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When you love someone, show them in words AND deeds. To hear you're loved is nice but to feel loved is incredible. Nina Guilbeau
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Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other. The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement. Adrienne Rich
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Energetic cords are unconscious - often sentimental or compulsive - emotional ties to past and present relationships, pre-conditioned by our wounds. They are made of toxic emotions such fear, guilt, blame, hatred, obligation, grasping need or pain. Avril Carruthers
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Don't count on me to take you in because I'm angry. I'm angry at you for leading us on such a song and dance all these years, not just these few years but all the years, skipping all those holidays and staying away from beach trips and missing Mom and Dad's thirtieth anniversary and their thirty-fifth and Jeannie's baby and not attending my wedding that time or even sending a card or calling to wish me well. But most of all Denny, most of all: I will never forgive you for consuming every last little drop of our parents' attention and leaving nothing for the rest of us. Anne Tyler
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You must be committed to your children first. Otherwise, they will receive the leftovers. Lorilyn Roberts
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A dam doesn't try to reason with the water. Its main purpose is to hold it still for a while. When I lecture my kids I'm doing much the same thing. I'm not trying to necessarily reason with them, just hold them still for a short while. Spuds Crawford
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I’ve never gotten a love letter before. But reading these notes like this, one after the other, it feels like I have. It’s like . it’s like there’s only ever been Peter. Like everyone else that came before him, they were all to prepare me for this. I think I see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you. And Peter does. He sees me, and I see him. . Jenny Han
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It wasn’t every day that I got to see him, but when I did I knew I was on the right path and that life, while still shifting, was always improving for the better. Jonathan Kuiper
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Only humans can hurt one another, Ada thought; only humans falter and betray one another with a stunning, fearsome frequency. As David's family had done to him; as David had done to her. And Ada would do it too. She would fail other people throughout her life, inevitably, even those she loved best. Liz Moore
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...one can never leave home...one carries the shadows, the dreams, the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes... Maya Angelou
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Places are supposed to look smaller when you go back to them, but my road just looked schizoid. A couple of the houses had had nifty little makeovers involving double glazing and amusing faux-antique pastel paint; most of them hadn't. Number 16 looked like it was on its last legs: the roof was in tatters, there was a pile of bricks and a dead wheelbarrow by the front steps, and at some point in the last twenty years someone had set the door on fire. In Number 8, a window on the first floor was lit up, gold and cozy and dangerous as hell. . Tana French
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Family are people who never earn your respect or love but demand it nevertheless. Greg Keyes
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How did so many women get to this unhappy place of not understanding how truly "simple" men are in their requirements and how much benevolent power their wives have over them? Why did notions like assuaging "male ego" and using "feminine wiles" rocket into disrepute? How is it that so many women are angry with men in general yet expect to have a happy life married to one of them? There are a number of reasons for this, and I believe they all revolve around the assault upon, and virtual collapse of, the values of religious morality, modesty, fidelity, chastity, respect for life, and a commitment to family and child-rearing. Laura Schlessinger
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When I was about nine, my siblings and I fell out of our moving van at an intersection. My dad didn’t notice for about five blocks. It was back before seat belts. It was also back before parents used any sort of common sense whatsoever. It was a time when you didn’t raise your children. You just fed them and they got bigger. Dina Kucera
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It was the sibling thing, I suppose. I was fascinated by the intricate tangle of love and duty and resentment that tied them together. The glances they exchanged; the complicated balance of power established over decades; the games I would never play with rules I would never fully understand. And perhaps that was key: they were such a natural group that they made me feel remarkably singular by comparison. To watch them together was to know strongly, painfully, all that I'd been missing. Kate Morton
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Everyone has a colorful life. You just have to get out your crayons. Benay Nordby
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Maybe she'd never really known her mother at all. And if you couldn't know the person whose body was your first home, then who could you ever know? Brit Bennett
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And you, Mom. I loved you. You've asked if i felt and understood that you loved me. of course I did. And you know this. I loved your love because it kept me safe and happy and wanted, and it existed beyond words and hugs and eyes. Lisa Genova
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Everything's temporary...until it's not. Renata Suerth
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I was a watchful boy being raised by a father I didn’t admire. In a desperate way, I needed the guidance of someone who could show me another way of becoming a man. It was sometime during the year when I decided I would become the kind of man that Bill Dufford was born to be. I wanted to be the type of man that a whole town could respect and honor and fall in love with–the way Beaufort did when Bill Dufford came to town to teach and shape and turn its children into the best citizens they could be. . Pat Conroy
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You know the saying? Don't go in if you don't have a skin. Jackie Williams
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Maybe I stepped into the skin my mother left behind, and became the girl my mother had been, the one she still wanted to be. Maybe I was wearing her youth now like an airy scarf, an accessory, all bright nerves and sticky pearls, and maybe that's why she spent so much time staring at me with that wistful look in her eyes. I was wearing something of hers, something she wanted back. It was written all over her face. . Laura Kasischke
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Ladies if A Man is More Invested and Concerned About Your Assets....He Is A Liability Mo Stegall
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Bad luck doesn't have any chinks in it. I was born a son of a bitch and I'm going to die a son of a bitch. - Captain Roque Carnicero Unknown
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Do I raise the dead when I put him behind bars? Then what'll I do it for? We used to shoot a man who acted like a dog, but honor was real there, you were protecting something. But here? This is the land of the great big dogs, you don't love a man here, you eat him! Arthur Miller
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This is how it essentially is for Bunny Junior. He loves his dad. He thinks there is no dad better, cleverer, or more capable, and he stands there beside him with a sense of pride – he's my dad – and he also, of course, stands beside him because he has nowhere else to go. Nick Cave
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I consider you mine, because Donna considered you hers. David Isay
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You are the posterity of your family. You are either continuing the progression or regression of your ancestors. Johnnie Dent Jr.
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There are all sorts of families, " Tom's grandmother had remarked, and over the following few weeks Tom became part of the Casson family, as Micheal and Sarah and Derek-from-the-camp had done before him. He immediately discovered that being a member of the family was very different from being a welcome friend. If you were a Casson family member, for example, and Eve drifted in from the shed asking, "Food? Any ideas? Or shall we not bother?" then you either joined in the search of the kitchen cupboards or counted the money in the housekeeping jam jar and calculated how many pizzas you could afford. Also, if you were a family member you took care of Rose, helped with homework (Saffron and Sarah were very strict about homework), unloaded the washing machine, learned to fold up Sarah's wheelchair, hunted for car keys, and kept up the hopeful theory that in the event of a crisis Bill Casson would disengage himself from his artistic life in London and rush home to help. . Hilary McKay
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To a child love is spelled T-I-M-E. Zig Ziglar
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When you're sorting yourself out, family are not often the ones you can turn to. They represent the place of departure and not the place of arrival. Witi Ihimaera
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I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life. Maya Angelou
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She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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...Families are Forever, and wondered if the slogan was meant as a promise or a threat. Brady Udall
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Kat looked down at her lemonade. 'Do you think he betrayed the love of his life...because of us?'' She used the name Romani, Kat, ' was Gabrielle's answer. 'And besides...' She let the words draw out. Her gaze went to the distance, and there was a sense of peace in the way she said, 'WE'RE the love of his life.' She raised her glass again. 'To family. Ally Carter
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Because I miss them. Because I need them. Because I love them. Rebecca Wells
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We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father. Maggie Stiefvater
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The harsh truth of every relationship, even between those who love each other, like fathers and sons and daughters, or husbands and wives, is that the love is always unequal. Karl Taro Greenfeld
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With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it's there. Better late than never. Sarah Dessen
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Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama. Dorothy Allison
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You mustn't stand about. Come home with me to dinner.’‘ No.’ More shakes his head. ‘I would rather be blown around on the river and go home hungry. If I could trust you only to put food in my mouth — but you will put words into it. Hilary Mantel
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In my family strange is relative. Kate Rockland
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The boughs, without becoming detached from the trunk grow away from it. Victor Hugo
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Sarene finally released him, wiping her eyes, disappointed in herself for crying again. Kiin simply placed a large hand on her shoulder and led her into the dining room, where the rest of the family sat around the table, even Adien.Lukel had been talking animatedly, but he cut off as he saw Sarene. "Speak the name of the lion, " he said, quoting a Jindoeese proverb, "and he will come to feast. Brandon Sanderson
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...I’m sorry you grew up without me and that fatherly moments came second hand like clothing and toys from your brothers... Unknown
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Which meant it was time for the centerpiece of the celebration, the reason they were all gathered on Saturday, the weekly episode of what, as far as many of the Davidsons including Jody were concerned was the greatest television show ever made. Hee Haw. While Roy and Buck sang the opening song, everyone would bicker and talk back and forth, what was better about the show, the music or the humor, what have you, the natural result of 40 people crowded around one rabbit eared television set. But once Hee Haw started, the talking was over. After that, it was all about the love. And so was everything before, really. Brian Holers
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You men never change. Is that all you can see? Proud grandfathers of a large....” Mrs. Werner smacked her husband upside the head and took the pictures away. Melisa M. Hamling
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Love is a creative act. When you love someone you create a new world for them. My mother did that for me, and with the progress I made and the things I learned, I came back and created a new world and a new understanding for her. Trevor Noah
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There’s no such thing as half family. Sasha Martin
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As for you, do not wait until all lights are green to take off. Do not wait for all things to be in order such that they can see the future. You have to start were you are. You have to start now. You have to take action and make the commitment today. Do not accept to live another day in a miserable marriage. Apply what you are learning today and create the change that you want. Taka Sande
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In the beginning God did not make a church or cathedral, he made a family. In the beginning God did not appoint apostles, or prophets, or pastors etc, he appointed a husband and a wife in the covenant of marriage. In Genesis, the first mankind gathering was a wedding ceremony, and not a worship meeting. After God, the next thing that came was marriage. Taka Sande
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A relationship is built on trust and faith, and not on rules. Taka Sande
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Diplomacy is an art of tackling our enemies. Using diplomacy on dear ones, in order to make measurable gains, is just like using a sword in place of a needle. We will be left bare very soon, and visibly so. Sandeep Sahajpal
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I looked at my little family all smiling and quite happy at the thought that Charlie had tried to maim or kill Mr. Lomax - or at least blow up his van - and I realized then that I was the only normal one. Nina Stibbe
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This is the beginning of what we will come to call the Upstairs-Downstairs, Linga-Singha wars. Nayomi Munaweera
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I suppose that's the reason I believe that as long as there is someone in charge of the household, someone who can maintain order among its members, someone who is clearly mature and established as a person, someone, in other words, like my mother, then eventually all who live under the same roof, despite blood ties or lineage, will at one point become family. Such a simple idea, but one that took a while for me to catch on to. Oh, and another thing. If the same people don't spend enough time in a home, even if they are connected by blood, their bonds will slowly fade away like a familiar landscape. . Banana Yoshimoto
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The blessing begins at home. Taka Sande
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We may view it as our responsibility to control something that is not in fact within our control and yet fail to exercise the power and authority that we do have over our own behavior. Mothers cannot make children think, feel, or be a certain way, but we can be firm, consistent, and clear about what behavior we will and will not tolerate, and what the consequences are for misbehavior. We can also change our part in patterns that keep family members stuck. At the same time we are doomed to failure with any self-help venture if we view the problem as existing within ourselves–or within the child or the child’s father, for that matter. There is never one villain in family life, although it may appear that way on the surface. Harriet Lerner
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So also in a marriage or in helping a teenager through a difficult identity crisis–there is no quick fix, where you can just move in and make everything right with a positive mental attitude and a bunch of success formulas. Stephen Covey
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I felt a surge of love for my aunt. We disagreed about so many things, yet here was family: the people who kept dancing with you, even after the music stopped. Sibella Giorello
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Family is not just blood. It is the person who stands with you when the odds are impossible, the one who cries with you when your sadness is overwhelming. The individual who sacrifice of their time, talent and care just to let you know you are not alone. These are people that are also your family. They have the blood of the soul running in their veins. The same soul you have Levon Peter Poe
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You daughter is prudish?” There was a gleam of triumph in Helena Winter’s face. Fee grimaced. Prudish? No, not that she could claim. Far too mild a word for what she felt. Mary Brock Jones
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.All of us are vulnerable to intense, non-productive angry reactions in our current relationships if we do not deal openly and directly with emotional issues from our first family–in particular, losses and cutoffs. If we do not observe and understand how our triangles operate, our anger can keep us stuck in the past, rather than serving as an incentive and guide to form more productive relationship patterns for the future. Harriet Lerner
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Husband and wife are like a pair of scissors, joined together for life but always moving in opposite directions. If anyone comes in between, they join together and cut them off. Hare Krishna Chandrasekaran
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Our worth comes from the promises we keep. Sunanda J. Chatterjee
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Max.”It was a sharp whisper to reinstate the silence and Max did not know what kind ofacerbic retort waited on the other side of his stilted pause. Kevin had never snapped athim before, but there was a part of him that thought it would happen today. His brother turned to face him, his deep blue eyes lined with tears and burning withanguish. “You’re my brother, ” he said, his voice low and unsteady. “You alreadyknow how I feel…and I know how you feel…so there’s no need to talk about this. And if you mention his name again, I’m gonna ask you leave.” Max nodded. That wasn’t the verbal lashing he was expecting but it made himunderstand his role in the situation. Kevin hadn’t played video games all day for theentertainment. He had done it for the distraction. And he hadn’t allowed Max to sit inhis room for so long because he intended to open up. He had kept Max there becausehe wanted the silent comfort, the pillar of strength only a brother could provide. - Kevin to Max . Unknown
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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. Marilynne Robinson
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You married into the family. You have to love me. It's a contractual obligation. Julia Quinn
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Glory had rehearsed angry outbursts in anticipation of his arrival. She began to hope he would come so she could tell him exactly what she thought. Marilynne Robinson
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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 sensational. Marilynne Robinson
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I sometimes wonder if I am crisscrossing my father's ghostly paths and we are entering same towns or roadside diners or the black ribbons of highways that gleam in the night rain. As if we were images in a time-lapse photograph. Gloria Steinem
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You're my daughter. I don't care about the factions. Veronica Roth
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It was about having a box in the attic or basement or attic or garage, something we could return to over and over again, something that said, this is us, this is where we were last year, and this is where we'll stay, and this is where we'll pile on the memories, over and over again, until there are so many memories that it's blinding, the brightness of family, the way love and nurturing is like a color you can't name because it's so new. Carrie Brownstein
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The most wonderful part of life is when your family becomes your friends, and your friends become your family. Bernard Dsa
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It was hard not to feel sorry for a life that had no purpose of its own... His only purpose, it seemed, was to come into her mother's life in order to send her home. For that, Bay decided, she would be grateful. For the rest, though, she wondered if she would ever be able to forgive him. She hoped she wouldn't remember him long enough to find out. Sarah Addison Allen
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Even as children they had been good in fact, but also in order to be seen as good. There was something disturbingly like hypocrisy about it all... Marilynne Robinson
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The hardest thing about talking to teenagers, I had discovered, was that whatever you said inevitably came across like something an elderly aunt would say at a wedding. Jojo Moyes
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For a second, I see into the future: she's old and grey, she has senile dementia and can't remember my name. The thought pretty much breaks my heart in two. Liz Kessler
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Dad was the glue to the broken pieces of our family. Joanie Chevalier
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Mmmhmmm, " Mother's delicate hands touched both sides of his cheeks as she spoke, "I do. Your name means 'to give' or 'gift'. Like giving a gift, or it means you are a gift." Then she tapped his nose, "I wonder...what have you been given or what might you have to give?" She looked directly at me, and I knew she mean the question for me as well. Julia J. Gibbs
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Mama covered her ears with her hands, but I knew she heard me. Tears streamed from her eyes and dribbled from her chin. Part of me wanted to blot her face with a tissue, real tender-like, but the evil me, the girl tired of keeping her feelings bottled up for fear I'd upset mama, was blissful at causing a commotion. Maybe it was cruel to make mama cry, but at least I had cracked her shell and got a reaction. Any response was better than talking to a zombie . April Young Fritz
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I rolled the ball of muffin and I waited and after my mother said, "That you should really take a multivitamin, " my father threw up his hands in disgust, and I was positive I had no family at all, certain it was not my mother but the solar wind that carried me into the universe. Alison Espach
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Children become frustrated and resentful when they view their parents as not being interested “in how they feel and in their point of view. Haim G. Ginott
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Then you never really feel comfortable around most people. Especially your family, who probably never seemed to understand you. But as you grow up you find others like yourself, people who support you, embrace your weirdness, and love for who you are - and they become your new family." - Tara Elizabeth Briggs