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  Family Quotes - Family is not an important thing, it's everything   “Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary   “After March in 1945, the Japanese felt threatened by possibility of the people of Indochina rising against them. Therefore, they stated: “We of the Imperial Japanese Army have only invaded other Asian countries in order to remove the European and American white man from Asia! Stick with us Japanese and together we shall make Asians great while we kick the whites out of the entire region!”   (A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)” ― Michael G. Kramer   “Often I felt like two people. One went into the world and did the living for the other, who was stuck in an endless moment of knowing. Yesterday was today and hereon in.” ― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows   “You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.” ― J...

  Family Quotes - God is the designer of the family   “She told me to wait, that I was going to lose a finger." Earl looked toward the kitchen and back at Ty and Duece. He snorted. "I asked her, did she think I was stupid? Then a couple of snips later, whack. Off went the finger. And you know what that woman said to me? I said 'Mara you cut my finger off.' And your mother said to me, 'Well Earl who's stupid now?” ― Abigail Roux, Stars & Stripes   “He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving. ” ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey   “It sounded old. Deserve. Old and tired and beaten to death. Deserve. Now it seemed to him that he was always saying or thinking that he didn't deserve some bad luck, or some bad treatment from others. He'd told Guitar that he didn't "deserve" his famil...

  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...

  Fathers Quotes - Parenting isn't something you do   “ The psychological absence of fathers can be nearly as devastating as physical absence. When fathers are alive but not a predictable presence actively participating in their daughter's lives the relationship becomes a permanent "maybe.” ― Victoria Secunda, Women and Their Fathers: The Sexual and Romantic Impact of the First Man in Your Life   “ If there’s one thing I regret it’s not having told my father how much I admired and loved him. My only gesture of affection was a quick kiss on the forehead two days before he died. The kiss tasted like sugar and I felt like a thief who furtively stole something that no longer belong to anybody. Why do we hide our feelings? Out of cowardice? Out of egotism? With a mother it’s different: we cover her with flowers, gifts and sweet phrases. What is it that prevents us from affectionately confronting our father and telling him, face to face, how much we love or admire him?...