Family
Quotes - She was a very pretty woman
“When
I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.”
―
Alice Hoffman, The Story Sisters
“She
was a very pretty woman. She had dark red hair and her eyes -- her eyes are
just like mine, Harry thought, edging a little closer to the glass. Bright
green -- exactly the same shape, but then he noticed that she was crying;
smiling, but crying at the same time. The tall, thin, black-haired man standing
next to her put his arm around her. He wore glasses, and his hair was very
untidy. It stuck up at the back, just like Harry's did.
Harry
was so close to the mirror now that his nose was nearly touching that of his
reflection.
"Mum?"
he whispered. "Dad?"
They
just looked at him, smiling. And slowly, Harry looked into the faces of the
other people in the mirror and saw other pairs of green eyes like his, other
noses like his, even a little old man who looked as though he had Harry's
knobbly knees -- Harry was looking at his family, for the first time in his
life.
The
Potters smiled and waved at Harry and he stared hungrily back at them, his
hands pressed flat against the glass as though he was hoping to fall right
through it and reach them. He had a powerful kind of ache inside of him, half
joy, half terrible sadness.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“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
“Is
this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one
piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?”
―
Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society
“You
can be a natural athlete with terrible work habits, and that ends up wasting
your gifts.”
―
Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and
Beyond
“Somewhere
between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope.”
―
Shannon L. Alder
“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
“Oh,
so now I'm getting in trouble for things I didn't tell anyone I didn't know?”
―
Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley
“You
are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No
exchanges.”
―
Elizabeth Berg, The Art of Mending
“Fritz
Kramer said, “I cannot see why my treatment of my Chinese workers as equals
should cause any German, American or British person any concern.”
―
Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
“So
that’s your sister?” asks Dee in a quiet voice.
“Yeah.”
“The
one you risked your life for?”
“Yeah.”
The twins
nod politely in that automatic way that people do when they don’t want to say
something insulting.
“Your
family any better?” I ask.
Dee
and Dum look at each other, assessing.
“Nah,”
says Dee.
“Not
really,” says Dum at the same time.”
―
Susan Ee, World After
“We
hunt as we've always done, part sport, part grocery shopping.”
―
Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley
“When
a long, long time later, he stares down at the silent blue marble of the earth
and thinks of his sister, as he will at every important moment of his life. He
doesn't know this yet, but he senses it deep down in his core. So much will
happen, he thinks, that I would want to tell you.”
―
Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You
“The
teacher pulled out a pile of papers. They were Bennie’s tests and homework
assignments. Mrs. Lewis said, “Ma’am, here is the proof that Bennie isn’t up to
a fourth grade level. He has an F on several of these assignments. In fact, a
zero grade is too high for some of Bennie’s work this last year.”
―
Harold Phifer, Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar
“Mother
is a verb. It's something you do. Not just who you are.”
―
Cheryl Lacey Donovan, The Ministry of Motherhood
“Ohana
means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten”
―
Lilo and stitch
“Stay
with me. Stay with me. Stay with me.
I
would write the words a thousand times if they'd be strong enough to hold you
here.”
―
Victoria Schwab, Gallant
“The
very worst events in life have that effect on a family: we always remember,
more sharply than anything else, the last happy moments before everything fell
apart.”
―
Fredrik Backman, Beartown
“The
woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is.
You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman
let him? I answer yes. Because the he becomes one of the children.”
―
Marguerite Duras
“The
fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand
today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring
and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so
supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or
perish’.”
―
Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest
Lesson
“I'm
allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as dandelion
seeds-no family, no history, just floating off into the world, each on our own
piece of fluff.”
―
Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl
