Family
Quotes - God is the designer of the family
“She
told me to wait, that I was going to lose a finger." Earl looked toward
the kitchen and back at Ty and Duece. He snorted. "I asked her, did she
think I was stupid? Then a couple of snips later, whack. Off went the finger.
And you know what that woman said to me? I said 'Mara you cut my finger off.'
And your mother said to me, 'Well Earl who's stupid now?”
―
Abigail Roux, Stars & Stripes
“He
said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one
who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter
and inwardly unforgiving. ”
―
J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
“It
sounded old. Deserve. Old and tired and beaten to death. Deserve. Now it seemed
to him that he was always saying or thinking that he didn't deserve some bad
luck, or some bad treatment from others. He'd told Guitar that he didn't
"deserve" his family's dependence, hatred, or whatever. That he
didn't even "deserve" to hear all the misery and mutual accusations
his parents unloaded on him. Nor did he "deserve" Hagar's vengeance.
But why shouldn't his parents tell him their personal problems? If not him, then
who? And if a stranger could try to kill him, surely Hagar, who knew him and
whom he'd thrown away like a wad of chewing gum after the flavor was gone––she
had a right to try to kill him too.
Apparently
he though he deserved only to be loved--from a distance, though--and given what
he wanted. And in return he would be...what? Pleasant? Generous? Maybe all he
was really saying was: I am not responsible for your pain; share your happiness
with me but not your unhappiness.”
―
Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
“God is the designer of the family.”
―
Gordon B. Hinckley
“He
made it very clear that he didn’t want me here,” she said at last. “That my
remaining at the Institute is not the happy chance I thought it was. Not in his
view.”
“And
after I just finished telling you why you should consider him family,” Jem
said, a bit ruefully. “No wonder you looked as if I’d just told you something
awful just happened.”
“I’m
sorry,” Tessa whispered.
“Don’t
be. It’s Will who ought to be sorry.” Jem’s eyes darkened. “We shall throw him
out onto the streets,” he proclaimed. “I promise you he’ll be gone by morning.”
Tessa
started and sat upright. “Oh – no, you can’t mean that─”
He
grinned. “Of course I don’t. But you did feel better for a moment there, didn’t
you?”
―
Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
“What
do you think it would have been like if Valentine had brought you up along with
me? Would you have loved me?"
Clary
was very glad she had put her cup down, because if she hadn't, she would have
dropped it.
Sebastian
was looking at her not with any shyness or the sort of natural awkwardness that
might be attendant on such a bizarre question, but as if she were a curious,
foreign life-form.
"Well,"
she said. "You're my brother. I would have loved you. I would have...had
to.”
―
Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls
“What
can we do?" Mom asked again.
I
shrugged.
But
she kept asking, as if there were something she could do, until I just kind of
crawled across the couch into her lap and my dad came over and held my legs
really tight and I wrapped my arms all the way around my mom's middle and they held
on to me for hours while the tide rolled in.”
―
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“I
confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family.
And
he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior”
―
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
“We
share out craziness, our neuroses, our little bit of screwed-up-ness that comes
from our family. We share it. And it feels like love.”
―
Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here
“Scrubbing
the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have
done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.”
―
Veronica Roth, Divergent
“I
stood up to go shake hands with him and I don’t remember anything else. What I
do recall is the crowd yelling and me crying, while everything seemed to be
moving in slow motion.”
―
Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and
Beyond
“It's
not reasonable to love people who are only going to die," she said.
Nash
thought about that for a moment, stroking Small's neck with great deliberation,
as if the fate of the Dells depended on that smooth, careful movement.
"I
have two responses to that," he said finally. "First, everyone's
going to die. Second, love is stupid. It has nothing to do with reason. You
love whomever you love. Against all reasons I loved my father." He looked
at her keenly. "Did you love yours?"
"Yes,"
she whispered.
He
stroked Small's nose. "I love you," he said, "even knowing
you'll never have me. And I love my brother, more than I ever realized before
you came along. You can't help whom you love, Lady. Nor can you know what it's
liable to cause you to do."
She
made a connection then. Surprised she sat back from him and studied his face,
soft with shadows and light. She saw a part of him she hadn't seen before.
"You
came to me for lessons to guard your mind," she said, "and you
stopped asking me to marry you, both at the same time. You did those things out
of love for your brother."
"Well"
he said, looking a bit sheepishly at the floor. "I also took a few swings
at him, but that's neither here nor there."
"You're
good at love," she said simply, because it seemed to her that it was true.
"I'm not so good at love. I'm like a barbed creature. I push everyone I
love away."
He
shrugged. "I don't mind you pushing me away if it means you love me,
little sister.”
―
Kristin Cashore, Fire
“No
one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake
the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or
the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.”
―
Erma Bombeck
