Family
Quotes - Soul mates
“I
don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's
perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man. ”
―
Toni Morrison
“He'd
learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about.”
―
Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
“Everyone
has always said I look like Bailey, but I don't.
I
have grey eyes to her green,
an
oval face to her heart-shaped one,
I'm
shorter, scrawnier, paler, flatter, plainer, tamer.
All
we shared is a madhouse of curls
that
I imprison in a ponytail
while
she let hers rave
like
madness
around
her head.
I
don't sing in my sleep
or
eat the petals off flowers
or
run into the rain instead of out of it.
I'm
the unplugged-in one,
the
side-kick sister,
tucked
into a corner of her shadow.
Boys
followed her everywhere;
they
filled the booths at the restaurant where she waitressed,
herded
around her at the river.
One
day, I saw a boy come up behind her
and
pull a strand of her long hair
I
understood this-
I
felt the same way.
In
photographs of us together,
she
is always looking at the camera,
and
I am always looking at her.”
―
Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
“[Homeschooling]...recipe
for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of
peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons.”
―
Raymond S. Moore, School Can Wait
“Ahem!
Ahem!” As I recalled, Aunt Kathy loved Uncle Dan so much, she went grocery
shopping during his funeral and failed to attend his burial as well.
Apparently, Ham Hocks, Collard greens, Chitlin, Fatback, and Hog-Head
cheesetook higher priority over his Last Rites. Then the reverend proceeded
cautiously as he introduced my mom. “Let metell y’all about my Ms. Liza. Sister
Kathy kept this one close.”
“Ahem!
Ahem! Ar-choo! Ahem!”
Shockingly,
there was a lightening blast that rocked the building once again while dimming
the lights for more than 10seconds. The crowd turned restless, took a deep
breath, and then allowed Pastor Keith to resume. “I’m gonna tell y’all, they
were two kernels on a cob. When you saw Sister Kathy, you saw Sister Liza.
“Ahem!
Ahem! Ahem!”
“The
two of them raised those boys from seeds to bean stalks. We helped nourish them
right here in Zion Gate Union. Now they’re just ripe for the harvest. I hope
some of you ladies can take a
hint!”
For a brief moment, modest laughter filled the church. Yet, it was needed
because Pastor Keith had gone into uncharted waters. No one dared to challenge
my mom. Yet, Pastor Keith was speaking glowingly about her. Only a fewwanted to
see where the Reverend was going. But most didn’t care to re-open that door.
Church members were so afraid of Mom, no one dared to call her by name. All
parishioners would go mute and head the other way, or simply hit the exits just
to avoid all encounters.”
―
Harold Phifer, My Bully, My Aunt, & Her Final Gift
“Ask
anyone and they'll most likely say their family is crazy, and if they don't say
their family is crazy, their friends are crazy. That's because everyone is
crazy after taking the mask off. People are most themselves when not really
trying to fit in, when either alone or around those already closest to them,
and that is crazy.”
―
Criss Jami, Killosophy
“It
never takes longer than a few minutes, when they get together, for everyone to
revert to the state of nature, like a party marooned by a shipwreck. That's
what a family is. Also the storm at sea, the ship, and the unknown shore. And
the hats and the whiskey stills that you make out of bamboo and coconuts. And
the fire that you light to keep away the beasts.”
―
Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union
“If
it's to protect our family, be it the Kingdom or the entire world... We would
make anyone our enemy! That's what it means to be Fairy Tail!!”
―
Hiro Mashima
“Maybe
raising children was just giving them the things you loved most in the world
and hoping that they loved them too.”
―
Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
“Sometimes
it’s heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they’ve become. Maybe
that’s why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course.”
―
Jonathon Tropper
“Dr.
Webb says that losing a sibling is oftentimes much harder for a person than
losing any other member of the family. "A sibling represents a person's
past, present, and future," he says. "Spouses have each other, and
even when one eventually dies, they have memories of a time when they existed
before that other person and can more readily imagine a life without them.
Likewise, parents may have other children to be concerned with--a future to
protect for them. To lose a sibling is to lose the one person with whom one
shares a lifelong bond that is meant to continue on into the future.”
―
John Corey Whaley, Where Things Come Back
“Talaith
leaned forward, studied her youngest daughter. “You think you’re evil?”
“Pure
evil,” Izzy clarified, which got her a rather vicious glare from Rhi. An
expression Dagmar had never thought the young,
perpetually
smiling or sobbing girl was capable of.
“Why
would you think you’re evil?”
“It’s
a feeling I have.”
“No.
Someone told her.”
Rhi
glowered at her sister. “I never said that.”
“You
didn’t have to,” Izzy shot back. “I know you.”
“Well,
who told her that?” Talaith demanded.
And,
as one, they all turned and looked at Gwenvael.
He
blinked, sat up straight. “I would never say such a thing to my dear sweet
niece!”
“You
said it to me,” Talwyn snapped.
“That’s
because you’re not my dear sweet niece. You’re the rude little cow who threw a
knife at my head.”
“I
wasn’t aiming for you. I was aiming for Mum.”
“She’s
right,” Annwyl admitted. “I just ducked behind you.” She shrugged. “Sorry.”
―
G.A. Aiken, How to Drive a Dragon Crazy
“She
looked at him, his soft brown eyes and tall form, and contemplated raising
herself on her toes and kissing his ear, or his cheek...
Instead,
impulsively before leaving, she reached up and smoothed his mussed hair.
Mr.
Bradford beamed.”
―
Heather Dixon, Entwined
“Soul
mates. They really call themselves that, which makes sense, because I guess
they are ... They have no harsh edges with each other, no spiny conflicts, they
ride though life like conjoined jellyfish - expanding and contracting
instinctively, filling each other's spaces liquidly. Making it look easy.”
―
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
“The
best part of having a relationship is getting to call the person or lay down
next to them and tell them all the crazy things that happened to you all day
long, and in the end that’s what it’s about, kids. It’s not about the sex, it’s
not about the money that they give you or whatever. It’s not about how
good-looking they are, it’s about, can they listen to you talk for hours and
hours and hours about stupid shit that doesn't matter.”
―
Tegan Quin
“Secrets,’
she replied, casting my trousers aside, ‘are difficult things. Not precise. Not
always the same for the one who tells as for the one who receives. They make
demands. They may cause you to ask yourself, “Am I worthy?”’ At which, as if to
illustrate the point, she removed her bra and watched me follow the lines of
her magnificent form with my eyes.”
―
Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel
“How
shall I ever learn who I am when there is so much of me that belongs to someone
else?”
―
Madeline Claire Franklin, The Poppet and the Lune
“Ranjana
finds Stephen lying on an old string bed staring up at the ceiling and seeing
in its myriad cracks the soothing drift of clouds. She puts what she’s brought
to his lips, brushes them with her fingertips, and watches as he works the
sweet onto his teeth. She feels a light touch on her arm encouraging her to lie
next to him. She rests on her back, the pair of them laid out like two corpses
waiting for the first shower of moist earth. After a while, she rolls over,
nuzzles into his shoulder, and lets her hand fall limp and sweet across his
chest. She drifts off to sleep, sweating in the arms of her lover.”
―
Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel
“For
his children, he would move mountains.”
―
Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn