Family
Quotes - It's okay if you want to go
“Choose
your partners wisely. Always use protection, and always protect your heart.”
―
Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin, Sacrifices Beyond Kingdoms: A Provocative Romance
Torn Between Continents and Cultures
“One
reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had
given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh
and new and in a completely different form.”
―
Anne Fadiman
“Remember
what I told you about need versus want? We don't need you because that implies
you had to fix something in us. We were never broken. We want you, Wallace.
Every piece. Every part. Because we're family. Can you see the difference?”
―
T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door
“Venetian
laws last but a week. They keep making new laws because no one follows the old
ones…. Or enforces them.”
―
Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice
“It's
okay if you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. I want you to stay more
than I've ever wanted anything in my life. But that's what I want and I could
see why it might not be what you want. So I just wanted to tell you that I
understand if you go. It's okay if you have to leave us. It's okay if you want
to stop fighting.”
―
Gayle Forman
“My
litter sister looks up at me.
Mom
was right. Her eyes are the same as they've always been. Brown eyes fringed
with long lashes and steeped with the memory of sweetness and light, laughter
and joy - trapped in this mangled corpse-like face.
"It's
all right, baby girl," I whisper into her hair as I hug her. "I'm
here. I came for you."
Her
face crumples and her eyes shine. "You came for me."
I
stroke her hair. It's as silky as ever.”
―
Susan Ee, World After
“I
have been chosen and trained to carry the gift of the gods for the good and
protection of the people, and against all enemies of the clan, no matter their
strength or numbers. I join myself to the fellowship of jade warriors, freely
and with my whole being, and I will call them my brothers-in-arms. Should I
ever be disloyal to my brother, may I die by the blade. Should I ever fail to
come to the aid of my brother, may I die by the blade. Should I ever seek
personal gain at the expense of my brother, may I die by the blade. Under the
eyes of all the gods in Heaven, I pledge this. On my honor, my life, and my
jade.”
―
Fonda Lee, Jade City
“These
are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old
lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jaggedrocks. I only have these
little glimmers that flicker and then go out.”
―
Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
“No
matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a
family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily
even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back.”
―
Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home
“Tape
the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when
she's in sorrow.”
―
Yoko Ono
“Even
knowing that my presence brought a shadow over the lives of my loved ones, I
can't regret the experiences I've had with them. They gave me life, becoming an
integral part of my soul. They healed me when I was broken and somehow they
recovered those parts of me, I thought lost forever.”
―
J.D. Stroube, Caged by Damnation
“The
gingko tree leans lazily against the facing wall or perhaps it supports it;
Stephen cannot be sure. The dense ridges of its bark now appear like rippled
sand with, here and there, pools left behind by the tide. The bark is pocked
with white spots, holed and crinkled with age, seemingly dead but for the life
sprouting in its leaves, so smooth, so green, so deep. How remarkable this tree
is, how changeable, how mysterious its leaves and branches and trunk … how
infinite. Stephen reaches for another pipe. The smoke rubs out his yesterdays
and tomorrows. There is only now, this tree, this pipe. Another pipe, ah,
another pipe.”
―
Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel
“Love
does not cost anything. Kind words and deeds do not cost anything. The real
beauty of the world is equal for everyone to see. It was given by God equally
to all, without restrictions.
Everyone,
was given a beautiful vehicle in which to express love to others. Feelings are
free to express and give to ourselves and each other through our willingness to
give and care.
What
is complicated about this... Why have we made others feel they have to climb
mountains and swim oceans in order to make a difference.
All
we need to understand my friends, is that human life was given equally to us
all, not partially but in totality.
The
sun was given to all. It does not shine on the few. So, just has nature is
indifferent to our station or situation, we need to know that we are all equal.
We need to focus on the things that are constant and not place our values on
things that can be blown away with the next, great, wind.
Value
life in what ever house it dwells. For when it comes time that we are all
stripped to bare bones before the divine and facing eternity, we will
understand that the only law we were meant to follow, was to love ourselves and
each other. Nothing more...nothing less.”
―
Carla Jo Masterson
“Other
things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”
―
Anthony Brandt
“Hermes
gazed up at the stars. "My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've
learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter
how tempting they make it. It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass
you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the Internet-"
"You
invented the Internet?"
It
was my idea, Martha said.
Rats
are delicious, George said.
"It
was my idea!" Hermes said. "I mean the Internet, not the rats.”
―
Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters
“As
the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we
live.”
―
John Paul II
“We
are not defined by the family into which we are born, but the one we choose and
create. We are not born, we become.”
―
Tori Spelling
“You
have one family, Charley. For good or bad. You have one family. You can’t trade
them in. You can’t lie to them. You can’t run two at once, substituting back
and forth.
“Sticking
with your family is what makes it a family.”
―
Mitch Albom, For One More Day
