Family
Quotes - Sometimes I want to be human for you
“Don't
waste your time trying to provide people with proof of deceit, in order to keep
their love, win their love or salvage their respect for you. The truth is this:
If they care they will go out of their way to learn the truth. If they don't
then they really don't value you as a human being. The moment you have to sell
people on who you are is the moment you let yourself believe that every good
thing you have ever done or accomplished was invisible to the world. And, it is
not!”
―
Shannon L. Alder
“You
cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people
have been.”
―
Forrest Carter, The Education of Little Tree
“In
two worlds," said Alan quietly, "there is nothing I love half as much
as you.”
―
Sarah Rees Brennan, The Demon's Covenant
“Free-a
small word for such a magnificent thing. I don't know what it feels like, but I
want to find out.”
―
Victoria Schwab, Gallant
“Sometimes
I want to be human for you.”
―
Sarah Rees Brennan, The Demon's Covenant
“Due
to Mom’s condition, she would attack “The Walls” from sun-up to sun-down and
day after day due to her mentalparanoia. With the death of her sister, no
barrier, partition, fence, or any standing surface would’ve been safe. That
kind of trauma would’ve created an endless loop of rages such as: “Oh no! Oh
no! Not my sister, you Devil Ass Dawg! Oh Jesus, those Dead Dawg have come and
taken my sister away! Help me Jesus! Help me get those Dawg out of my house!
Lawd, I can’t take these Dawg howling anymore! Lawd Jesus, bring her back!
Lawd, bring her back!”
―
Harold Phifer, My Bully, My Aunt, & Her Final Gift
“I
know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-"
"The
world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl." He sounds bitter and
sad.
"If
the world will not forgive me," I say softly, "I shall have to learn
to forgive myself."
He
nods in understanding.
"And
how will you marry? Or do you intend to marry?"
I
think of Kartik, and tears threaten. "I shall meet someone one day, as
Mother found you.”
―
Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
“Unbeknown
to her, that Louisiana background secretly intimidated my urgency to drop to a
knee and produce a ring. Or maybe, I wanted to see her raise a chicken from the
dead. Rumors had assured me, her tribe was capable of voodoo, spells, and such.
Well, those were my on-going issues toward matrimony.
But
on the other hand, Deya couldn’t wait to meet the kin folks. Yes, I knew what
visions of family meant to her, butsadly, I wasn’t it. Still, I had to risk her
involvement as a potential rope out of hell.
Meantime,
we pressed onward to my dreaded hometown. I must have counted all the hog
farms, catfish ponds, livestock yards, and chicken barns along our route. Being
a country boy, I knew the smells, stinks, and how to identify them all. Yet
dealing with my relatives and the death of Aunt Kathy were different kinds of
shit to take in.”
―
Harold Phifer, My Bully, My Aunt, & Her Final Gift
“Sadie,"
he said forlornly, "when you become a parent, you may understand this. One
of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that
my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children's.”
―
Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid
“I know
family comes first, but shouldn't that mean after breakfast?”
―
Jeff Lindsay, Dearly Devoted Dexter
“This
is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls
- to the liberal minded the whole world is a family.”
―
Virchand Raghavji Gandhi
“Clearly
God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.”
―
Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
“Sundays
too my father got up early
and
put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then
with cracked hands that ached
from
labor in the weekday weather made
banked
fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.
I'd
wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When
the rooms were warm, he'd call,
and
slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing
the chronic angers of that house,
speaking
indifferently to him,
who had
driven out the cold
and
polished my good shoes as well.
What
did I know, what did I know
of
love's austere and lonely offices?”
―
Robert Hayden, Collected Poems
“Your
family's never in your past. You carry it around with you everywhere.”
―
M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans
“The
world is crazy. You need a license to drive a car and go fishing. You don't
need a license to start a family. Two people have sex and BAM! Perfectly
innocent kid is born whose life will be screwed up by her parents forever.”
―
Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory
“If
there’s one thing I learned, it is that blood families can sometimes be the
pits; it’s the one you make for yourself that really gives you a home and
people to love.”
―
Joss Stirling, Stealing Phoenix
“Single
parents - both women and men - can play as critical a role as the traditional
two-parent family, and gay and lesbian parents can, and do, raise happy,
resilient children. When it comes to family life, form is not merely as
important as content. Feeling loved and supported, nurtured and safe, is far
more critical than the 'package' it comes in.”
―
Michael Kimmel, Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men
“Stop
entertaining two faced people. You know the ones who have split personalities
and untrustworthy habits. Nine times out of ten if they telling you stuff about
another person, they're going to tell your business to other people. If they
say, "You know I heard........." More than likely it's in their
character to share false information. Beware of your box, circle, square!
Whatever you want to call it.”
―
Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
“My
mother hasn’t asked the questions that a normal person would ask, and I’m
grateful for it. It’s like the world has become so crazy that it makes sense to
her now.
I
turn on the engine and drive us out. ‘Thanks, Mom. For coming to rescue me.’ My
voice comes out reedy and a little wobbly. I clear my throat. ‘Not every mom
would do that in a world like this.”
―
Susan Ee, End of Days
“If
you never learned to hold onto someone, how could it possibly hurt now to let
them go?”
―
Shannon L. Alder
“It
was like how people find other people to be in love with, all random and
accidental and lucky.”
―
Jennifer Castle, The Beginning of After
“The
first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would
balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was
sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more
closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.”
―
Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf
“Sofia
couldn’t afford to live on faith any longer. It ended up hurting too much. ”
―
Douglas Weissman , Life Between Seconds
“She
imagined all the mothers of the unnamed children, imagined the ad cut from the
paper, a mother writing her child’s name at the bottom of the list to add their
child to the names of those who would return home, those beautiful children who
would never be forgotten, as if their child’s name needed to be on the list to
be remembered—to have been disappeared. ”
―
Douglas Weissman
