Quotes
about FAMILY - When a child is locked in the bathroom
“The
truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't
know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life
can never be more than just your mistress.”
―
Chuck Palahniuk
“So,
have a little fun. Soon enough you'll be dead and burning in Hell with the rest
of your family.”
―
George Carlin, Brain Droppings
“There
is no such thing as fun for the whole family.”
―
Jerry Seinfeld
“It
is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children
understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories
of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their
lives.”
―
Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“my
mother
is
pure radiance.
she
is the sun
i
can touch
and
kiss
and
hold
without
getting
burnt.”
―
Sanober Khan
“I
am a mother and mothers don’t have the luxury of falling apart in front of
their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are
adults.”
―
Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale
“She
had to choose what, of the things she inherited from the people who came before
her, she wanted to bring forward. And what, of the past, she wanted to leave
behind.”
―
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising
“When
a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing
nothing but the dog is barking, call 911. ”
―
Erma Bombeck
“I
will see you again,’ Hades promised. ‘I will prepare a room for you at the
palace in case you do not survive. Perhaps your chambers would look good
decorated with the skulls of monks.’
‘Now
I can’t tell if you’re joking.’
Hades’s
eyes glittered as his form began to fade. ‘Then perhaps we are alike in some
important ways.’
The
god vanished.”
―
Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
“If
you walked away from a
toxic,
negative, abusive,
one-sided,
dead-end
low
vibrational
relationship
or friendship
—
you won.”
―
Lalah Delia
“The
most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had
insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself.”
―
Shannon L. Alder
“He
knew Alec enough by now to know the conflicting impulses that warred in him. He
was conscientious, the kind of person who believed that the others around him
were so much more important than he was, who already believed he was letting
everybody down. And he was honest, the kind of person that was naturally open
about all he felt and wanted. Alec's virtues had made a trap for him; these two
good qualities had collided painfully. He felt he could not be honest without
disappointing everyone he loved. It was a hideous conundrum for him. It was as
if the world had been designed to make him unhappy.”
―
Cassandra Clare, What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything
“So
much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains
the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.”
―
Haniel Long
“The
way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.”
―
Mother Teresa
“Families
break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.”
―
Robert Frost
“He’d
learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to
whom on the godly side of things. After Tyson the Cyclops adopted him as a
brother, Percy decided that that was about as far as he wanted to extend the
family.”
― Rick
Riordan, The Mark of Athena
“Later,
when you're grown up, you realize you never really get to hang out with your
family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time,
and that's it.”
―
Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
“Mothers
and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong
in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.”
―
Gail Tsukiyama, Dreaming Water
“Don't
you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your
ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now -- look close at me so you will
remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do.”
―
John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“The
depression belongs to all of us. I think of the family down the road whose
mother was having a baby and they went around the neighborhood saying,
"We're pregnant." I want to go around the neighborhood saying,
"We're depressed." If my mum can't get out of bed in the morning, all
of us feel the same. Her silence has become ours, and it's eating us alive.”
―
Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca
