Quotes
about FAMILY - The world likes to see things in black and white
“It's
a commonly expressed and rather nice, romantic notion that we are all
"sisters" and "brothers."
Let's
be real. Fact is, we might be better served to accept that we are all siblings.
Siblings
fight, pull each other's hair, steal stuff, and accuse each other
indiscriminately.
But
siblings also know the undeniable fact that they are the same blood, share the
same origins, and are family.
Even
when they hate each other.
And
that tends to put all things in perspective.”
―
Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“She
wants you to be a god," I told him.
"I
know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my
heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents,
everywhere.”
―
Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
“The
world likes to see things in black and white, in moral and immoral. But there
is gray in between. And just because a person is capable of wickedness,
doesen't mean they will act upon it.”
―
T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea
“People
talk about the happy quiet that can exist between two loves, but this, too, was
great; sitting between his sister and his brother, saying nothing, eating.
Before the world existed, before it was populated, and before there were wars
and jobs and colleges and movies and clothes and opinions and foreign travel --
before all of these things there had been only one person, Zora, and only one
place: a tent in the living room made from chairs and bed-sheets. After a few
years, Levi arrived; space was made for him; it was as if he had always been.
Looking at them both now, Jerome found himself in their finger joints and neat
conch ears, in their long legs and wild curls. He heard himself in their
partial lisps caused by puffy tongues vibrating against slightly noticeable
buckteeth. He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just
love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the
last confirmation of love when everything else fell away.”
―
Zadie Smith, On Beauty
“Hades
allowed himself the faintest smile, but there was nothing cruel in his eyes.
‘I
can entertain the possibility that you acted for multiple reasons. My point is
this: you and I rose to the aid of Olympus because you convinced me to let go
of my anger. I would encourage you to do likewise. My children are so rarely
happy. I … I would like to see you be an exception.’
Nico
stared at his father. He didn’t know what to do with that statement. He could
accept many unreal things – hordes of ghosts, magical labyrinths, travel
through shadows, chapels made of bones. But tender words from the Lord of the
Underworld?
No.
That made no sense.”
―
Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
“Not
only had my brother disappeared, but--and bear with me here--a part of my very
being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from
only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared.”
―
John Corey Whaley, Where Things Come Back
“Fuck
it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not
"we love each other", it's just "fuck it, man.”
―
Louis C.K.
“War
is catastrophe. It breaks families in irretrievable pieces. But those who are
gone are not necessarily lost.”
―
Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
“Children
who are not encouraged to do, to try, to explore, to master, and to risk
failure, often feel helpless and inadequate. Over-controlled by anxious,
fearful parents, these children often become anxious and fearful themselves.
This makes it difficult for them to mature. Many never outgrow the need for
ongoing parental guidance and control. As a result, their parents continue to
invade, manipulate, and frequently dominate their lives.”
―
Susan Forward, Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming
Your Life
“All
families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just
reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.”
―
Douglas Coupland, All Families are Psychotic
“When
I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.”
― Alice
Hoffman, The Story Sisters
“I'm
inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the
hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired
by the love people have for their children. And I'm inspired by my own
children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the
world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.”
―
Barack Obama
“Traveling
in the company of those we love is home in motion.”
―
Leigh Hunt
“He’s
my brother, my blood. He annoys the hell out of me most of the time, but when
it comes right down to it I want to see him graduate from college and have
little annoying mini-Alexes and mini-Brittanys running around in the future”
―
Simone Elkeles, Rules of Attraction
“After
that, nothing was the same. The very notion of my having a family turned vague,
hard to credit, even weirdly jokey.”
―
Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows: A novel
“True
best friends never fail on understanding, forgiving, and being there for one
another no matter what situation that they might be in or having with one
another because of the fact of that no matter if it’s two males or females love
should always be there as if brothers or sisters if their what we call best
friends.”
―
Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable
“No
amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know
what was going on inside of me, so how could I have explained it to them?”
―
Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.
“Maybe
our parents' lives are imprinted within us, maybe the only fate there is is the
temptation of reliving their mistakes. Maybe, try as we might, we will never be
able to outrun the blood that runs through our veins. Or. Or maybe we are free
the moment we are born. Maybe everything we've even done is by our own hands.”
―
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising
“Women
without children are also the best of mothers, often, with the patience, interest,
and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot always
sustain. I come to crave our talk and our daughters gain precious aunts. Women
who are not mothering their own children have the clarity and focus to see
deeply into the character of children webbed by family. A child is fortuante
who feels witnessed as a peron,outside relationships with parents by another
adult.”
―
Louise Erdrich, The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year
“Never
judge someone by their relatives.”
―
Charles Martin, Chasing Fireflies
