“ If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock. Kristin Cashore
“ What about Danny Thomas?" Uncle Hal asks. "What happened to him?"Dead," Uncle Abdelhafiz says. "Nice Lebanese boy.""Never mind about Danny Thomas, look what happened to your whole family! Look at your… Diana Abu-Jaber
“ As a young man I started searching for my own identity by looking into family, friends and insideMyself. My mother always taught us to live free even when confined, meaning “never let anyone break you… Rubin Scott
“ It was a sickening, humbling, maddeningly powerless sensation this watching them and waiting for them to come to him. For the time they could be a family again. But Mickey did it like one’s tongue poi… Genevieve Dewey
“ Speaking generally, however, when you interact with someone else, you are doing outer work (physical time, play time, connecting time) ... as many sociologists have pointed out, this area of life used… Deepak Chopra
“ However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels... Rosamund Lupton
“ I could feel the hard part of Mom very strongly that time. It was like a stone in her that grew bigger every time my father lost his temper, right under her heart. Feeling the stone in her calmed me d… Kaimana Wolff
“ You'd think family would be the one sure thing in life, the gimme? Points you got just for being born? So much thick, meaty stuff bound you to these people, so many interlocking spirals of history, ge… Ben Fountain
“ If you could figure out how to live with family then you'd gone a long way toward finding your peace. Ben Fountain
“ Every family has one living patriarch or matriarch, the final arbiter and repository of ancient family history, and Nicole's Aunt Patti was the last woman standing. Liz Rosenberg
“ Whoa, that's the kind of little sister I can dig!" said Edison."Yes, we're all alike," I said. "We cover for you, we lie for you, we take the heat for you. We clean up your messes and mollify our pare… Lionel Shriver
“ ...we should be grateful for them because without our family—the ancestors we descend from, the cousins we see once a year, the loves our lives we see every day—life is pretty boring. Ellen DeGeneres
“ I found myself stuck into a Gertrude’s Dream Waltz universe. Like Gertrude, I was trapped inside a body that bellied little of the person inside, while simultaneously ensnared in a home filled with pe… Luella Christie
“ Know what being a man's pet means. And if you're ever lucky enough to find yourself with the choice, choose the pasture. Stacy Overman Morrison
“ Soon we will not need people anymore, as everything will be done by automatons, including bringing up children. Andrius B. Tapinas
“ Every family has a destiny to fulfill....Every child is the future of his or her family and nation at large....Every father is a hero to his son (child).....Fathers are you truly heroes to your childr… Jaachynma N.E. Agu
“ Your Barney?” Cole’s eyebrows shot up. “Yours?”“He’s mine all right!” Claire replied. “Everyone in this family belongs to everyone else – belongs with everyone else, rather. I’ve looked after him for… Margaret Mahy
“ Now and adult, allowed a glimpse of these first cracks in my family's perfect surface, I couldn't help but wonder what else I didn't understand about us all.p 60 Melanie Benjamin
