7,080 Quotes About Family

Mom filed for divorce. In the counselor's office, my parents claimed that we would always be a family because of me, but things would be better now. No more yelling, no more arguments. By tearing our family apart, they were actually making it stronger. By the time I figured out that they were not making any sense, the family counseling was done and Dad was walking down the aisle with Jennifer.

I thought a polished appearance and stellar behavior would be the passport to belonging. And when I inevitably failed at perfection, I could at least wilfully do everything in my power to be kicked out before anyone left me.

Gangsters too have families. They have a wife they return to.

Jesus might have said to turn the other cheek, but I ain’t no Jesus – if they come for my loved ones, they won’t even have a head over their shoulders!

When someone loves loudly, with everything they have in them, the withholding of that loud love, even briefly, feels impossible to endure.

On bad days, like today, she knew that she had always been an outsider in her own family. They had sensed the lack in her early on, seen that she didn't fit in.

That's doubtless what family is for: putting your toothbrushes side by side and using the same toilet paper, discussing whether or not to change the TV channels, finding hair in the plughole of the shower cubicle, not being able to sit for a moment in silence with the other person without asking "What's wrong?", closing one's eyes peacefully, turning out the light and not feeling afraid, being near.

Thus began Anna Dostoyevskaya’s career as Russia’s first sole woman publisher, a career that would in time wrest Dostoyevsky out of debt and continue to provide for their family for almost the next four decades.

The only things we own in life are the moments we've shared with the people we love.