Family
Quotes - When you lose your ego, you win
“...my
father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best
like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure,
inarticulate fury would fill the house for days, weeks, at a time, making the
air humid, hard to breathe, my father stalking around with his lower jaw
jutting out, giving him the look of a wounded, vengeful boxer, grinding his
teeth so loud you could hear it across the room ... I'm sure he told himself:
'I never hit her'. I'm sure because of this technicality he never saw himself
as an abuser. But he turned our family life into an endless road trip with bad
directions and a rage-clenched driver, a vacation that never got a chance to be
fun.”
―
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
“Elizabeth
felt as if every cell in her body was aflame with desire.”
―
Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin, Sacrifices Beyond Kingdoms: A Provocative Romance
Torn Between Continents and Cultures
“When
you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple.”
―
Shannon L. Alder
“He
gave her a quick, casual kiss on the cheek first. Then came the hug, and it was
the hug that always made Laurel’s heart mush. Serious grip, cheek to the hair,
eyes closed, just a little sway. Del’s hugs mattered, she thought, and made him
impossible to resist.”
―
Nora Roberts, Savor the Moment
“It
doesn't matter how busy life's been, how long the five of us have gone without
seeing one another: meeting at the cottage is like pulling on a favourite
sweatshirt, worn to perfection.
Time
doesn't move the same way when we're there. Things change, but we stretch and
grow and make room for one another.
Our
love is a place we can always come back to, and it will be waiting, the same as
it ever was.
You
belong here. ”
―
Emily Henry, Happy Place
“When
you can cultivate a sense of self-awareness that extends beyond your own
subjective experience, you have the opportunity to study your behaviors from an
objective vantage point.”
―
Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an
Increasingly Divided World
“There
are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second
your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to see, but in the
end time will show you that the cards you have been dealt could always have
been worse.”
―
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Midnight Palace
“We
are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family
language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between
any two points is a fullish circle.”
―
J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
“What’s
the best part of being in Hermes cabin?
Connor:
You are never lonely. I mean seriously, new kids are always coming in. So you
always have someone to talk to.
Travis:
Or prank.
Connor:
Or pickpocket. One big happy family.”
―
Rick Riordan, The Demigod Files
“There
is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for
it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want
the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and
to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have
children.”
―
Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest
Lesson
“a
daughter should
not
have to
beg
her father
for
a relationship”
―
Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey
“To
lose someone you love is the very worst thing in the world. It creates an
invisible hole that you feel you are falling down and will never end. People
you love make the world real and solid and when they suddenly go away forever,
nothing feels solid any more.”
―
Matt Haig, A Boy Called Christmas
“Don't
kill her now, just when we've gone to all that trouble to rescue her,"
said Jeffrey.”
―
Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits,
and a Very Interesting Boy
“When
your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the
nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned
toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.”
―
Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
“They
called each other family and that’s what they were—sisters. Many people in the
world had family of the heart, kin by choice rather than by blood, and hers had
come along in her darkest hour and saved her life.”
―
Christine Feehan, Spirit Bound
“Writers
will happen in the best of families.”
―
Rita Mae Brown
“People
aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but
it's the way you live your life that matters. And the people you know.
Valentine was Hodge's friend, and I don't think Hodge really had anyone else in
his life to challenge him or make him be a better person. If I'd had that life,
I don't know how I would have turned out. But I didn't. I have my family. And I
have you.”
―
Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
“The
heart wants what it wants, Dolp. You don't plan on making your life
complicated, it just happens,and you don"t do it on purpose, and you don't
do it to hurt people who love you. It just turns out that way sometimes.”
―
Laurell K. Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains
“Small
Acts of Kindness are Priceless”
― MG
Wells
“When
she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.”
―
Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
“A
family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the
meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning,
but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart.”
―
Keri Hulme, The Bone People
“In
truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by number of heads
counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help family members create,
by the memories you share, by the commitment of time, caring, and love you show
to one another, and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as
a unit.”
―
Marge Kennedy
“If
she wasn't your grandmother I'd shoot her."
Ranger”
―
Janet Evanovich, Hot Six
“I
was alone. I had no one. No mother, no father, no brothers, no sisters, no
grandmas, no grandpas, no uncles, no aunties, no cousins, and no tribe. I’d
seen the children at the orphanage laugh or cry when they received news about a
family member. I would never receive such news and no family would laugh or cry
for me. That day I understood with sharp clarity that I didn’t have a mother
who wanted me.”
―
Maria Nhambu, Africa's Child
“It's
in these moments, next to you, that I envy words for doing what we can never
do-- how they can tell all of themselves simply by standing still, simply by
being. Imagine I could lie down beside you and my whole body, every cell,
radiates a clear, singular meaning, not so much a writer as a word pressed down
beside you.”
―
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“I
am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.”
―
Maya Angelou
