“ At this moment, I know that the answer has to be yes. I am defeated. By my own father. How Darth Vader. Denis Markell
“ I know you see me as some crazy old bitch nagging at you," she said, "but you forget the reason I ride you so hard and give you so much shit is because I love you. Everything I have ever done I've don… Trevor Noah
“ So even though Grandpa's life has closed its final chapter, the story that he embodied continues each time we take a handful of dirt to check moisture levels or turn our head at the sound of the wind… Heidi Barr
“ You are the posterity of your family. You are either continuing the progression or regression of your ancestors. Johnnie Dent Jr.
“ So at family gatherings… I try to stick to the acceptable script. Indeed, I discover that the less I say, the happier everyone seems to be with me. I sometimes wonder if I wouldn’t have been better of… Kiera Van Gelder
“ When you divorce someone, you divorce their whole family, Madeline had told her once. Liane Moriarty
“ There's only three things you need to do when you are finished editing your book - Sleep! Sleep! and Sleep! A. Louise Robertson
“ ...it isn’t things and proximity, or even blood that holds us all together. What makes a family is love and loyalty. Genevieve Dewey
“ There are millions of people out there who live this way, and their hearts are breaking just like mine. It’s okay to say, “My kid is a drug addict or alcoholic, and I still love them and I’m still pro… Dina Kucera
“ 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… Nick Cave
“ ...our family became a place where you screamed for help but no one heard, not ever. Marceline Loridan-Ivens
“ 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 la… Arthur Miller
“ They want me to contain the raging fires within me. They need me to appreciate glowing embers, to understand that even weak flames need to be managed with a lot of careful planning. Jinat Rehana Begum
“ 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 bri… Laura Kasischke
“ A child that’s being abused by its parents doesn’t stop loving its parents, it stops loving itself. Shahida Arabi
“ 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 whe… Pat Conroy
