Quotes
about FAMILY - What is Home?
“What
is home? My favorite definition is "a safe place," a place where one
is free from attack, a place where one experiences secure relationships and
affirmation. It's a place where people share and understand each other. Its
relationships are nurturing. The people in it do not need to be perfect;
instead, they need to be honest, loving, supportive, recognizing a common
humanity that makes all of us vulnerable.”
―
Gladys Hunt, Honey for a Child's Heart: The Imaginative Use of Books in Family
Life
“Then
she did something so unexpected Nico would later think he dreamed it. She
walked up to Nico, who was standing to one side in the shadows, as usual. She
grabbed his hand and pulled him gently into the firelight. ‘We had one home,’
she said. ‘Now we have two.’ She gave Nico a big hug and the crowd roared with
approval. For once, Nico didn’t feel like pulling away. He buried his face in
Reyna’s shoulder and blinked the tears out of his eyes.”
―
Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
“Me:
“I refuse to attend Support Group.”
Mom:
“One of the symptoms of depression is disinterest in activities.”
Me:
“Please just let me watch America’s Next Top Model. It’s an activity.”
Mom:
“Television is a passivity.”
Me:
“Ugh, Mom, please.”
Mom:
“Hazel, you’re a teenager. You’re not a little kid anymore. You need to make
friends, get out of the house, and live your life.”
Me:
“If you want me to be a teenager, don’t send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake
ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot.”
Mom:
“You don’t take pot, for starters.”
Me:
“See, that’s the kind of thing I’d know if you got me a fake ID.”
Mom:
“You’re going to Support Group.”
Me:
“UGGGGGGGGGGGGG.”
Mom:
“Hazel, you deserve a life.”
―
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Percy
blinked. “So your brother is a winged horse. But you’re also my half brother,
which means all the flying horses in the world are my…You know what? Lets’
forget it.”
―
Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
“In
an old house in Paris that was covered with vines
Lived
twelve little girls in two straight lines
In
two straight lines they broke their bread
And
brushed their teeth and went to bed.
They
left the house at half past nine
In
two straight lines in rain or shine-
The
smallest one was Madeline.”
―
Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline
“Nico
scowled. ‘It’s none of your business, but I don’t belong. That’s obvious. No
one wants me. I’m a child of –’
‘Oh,
please.’ Will sounded unusually angry. ‘Nobody at Camp Half-Blood ever pushed
you away. You have friends – or at least people who would like to be your
friend. You pushed yourself away. If you’d get your head out of that brooding
cloud of yours for once –”
―
Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
“Then
he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn
and I fell. The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage
and down into a flower bed. Blood gushed rhythmically from my open wound,
then
from my eyes,
my
ears,
my
mouth.
It
tasted like salt and failure. The bright red shame of being unloved soaked the
grass in front of our house, the bricks of the path, the steps of the porch. My
heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.”
― E.
Lockhart, We Were Liars
“No
one fights dirtier or more brutally than blood; only family knows it’s own
weaknesses, the exact placement of the heart. The tragedy is that one can still
live with the force of hatred, feel infuriated that once you are born to
another, that kinship lasts through life and death, immutable, unchanging, no
matter how great the misdeed or betrayal. Blood cannot be denied, and perhaps
that’s why we fight tooth and claw, because we cannot—being only human—put
asunder what God has joined together.”
―
Whitney Otto, How to Make an American Quilt
“I'll
be your family now," he says.
"I
love you," I say. (....)
He
stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms for stability as he
considers his response.
He
frowns at me. "Say it again."
"Tobias,"
I say, "I love you.”
―
Veronica Roth, Insurgent
“we
must take care of our families wherever we find them.”
―
Elizabeth Gilbert
“Unfortunately,
some family members are so psychotic that no matter how hard you try to forge a
healthy relationship, nothing will help. Now that you're an adult, take refuge
in the fact that some things are beyond your control. You owe it to yourself to
steer clear of people who are harmful to your health.”
―
Andrea Lavinthal, Your So-Called Life: A Guide to Boys, Body Issues, and Other
Big-Girl Drama You Thought You Would Have Figured Out by Now
“Sticking
with your family is what makes it a family.”
―
Mitch Albom, For One More Day
“Siblings:
children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get
together.”
―
Sam Levenson
“But
in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom
on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like
when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams
never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of
pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from
being complete.”
―
Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye
“I
raise a plastic glass. “To family.”
“And
Faerieland,” says Taryn, raising hers.
“And
pizza,” says Oak.
“And
stories,” says Heather.
“And
new beginnings,” says Vivi.
Cardan
smiles, his gaze on me. “And scheming great schemes.”
To
family and Faerieland and pizza and stories and new beginnings and scheming
great schemes. I can toast to that.”
―
Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing
“While
we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is
all about.”
―
Angela Schwindt
“If
you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up.
If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the
doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you
permit it.”
―
Mark Glamack
“Family
is found...whether it be blood or circumstance or choice, what binds us does
not matter. All that matters is that we are bound.”
―
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising
“Lunatics
are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since
an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy
and goes inside. Then, depending on how the rest of the family is feeling that
person is kept inside or snatched out, to prove something about the family's
mental health.”
―
Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted: Screenplay based on the book
“Never
Let anyone tell you that you can't; show them that you can.”
―
Gloria Mallette
