676 Quotes About Family-relationships

Scorned and torn, former love mates aim and shoot childish devastating daggers that penetrate beyond target to pierce the heart of their offspring.

Doubt is a lot like faith; A mustard's seed worth changes everything.

I've remembered that most of life is about small, essential connections, so unobtrusive, so elastic, that you scarcely realize they're actually holding you together. The big ones-the great, grand emotional bonds-those are the ones that break, the ones that fail you, the ones that give way and send you careening toward the foot of the bleak and jagged canyon. It's the tough, gnarled, unadorned ties that really do bind, that never let you fall all the way down into darkness.

I left you there because I have never loved anything in my life like I love you. Not Isolde. Not the trade. Nothing.

Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.

With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it's there. Better late than never.

Very few people get a chance to quantify how much their father loves them. But I did. The job should have taken forty-five minutes, but Dad spent three and a half hours on it. My father loves me 366 percent more than he loves anything else. Good to know.

Your best is good enough.

You mustn't stand about. Come home with me to dinner.’‘No.’ More shakes his head. ‘I would rather be blown around on the river and go home hungry. If I could trust you only to put food in my mouth – but you will put words into it.