7,080 Quotes About Family

Sometimes I'm ashamed of how I've clung to them with bloody, torn-apart hands, trying to make it work even after they show me again and again it's not worth it. But I'm somehow also ashamed of choosing myself now.

Disbelievers doubt rumors of miracles. They insist on seeing things with their own eyes. Believers recognize small miracles, like the everyday love that exists in families. (Who else could love these people?) Perhaps the greater miracle is that God’s work is quiet and subtle, easily overlooked; perhaps the greater miracle is that His work doesn’t conform to the expectations or demands of those who do not believe in Him.

What did I have? My father's book and my silver coin-knife, both wrapped tight in a stolen pillowcase. Bad, snoring lightly beside me. Jane. Samuel. My own unwritten words waiting to change the shape of the world. Surely all that outweighed what I didn't have: a mother, a father, a home. Surely it would be enough.

Because she's my mum Ryan. She wasn't a very good one, she was a horrible one in fact. But she is all I have left and I don't want to end up like her. I want to be a good person; I want to continue to care about others even when they don't deserve it.

We are family as we share food.

I’m super antisocial and introverted, don’t let the charisma fool you. I just grew up in a super crowded house full of other musicians, artists and writers. Everybody had a pitch, scheme, or their own shtick. So I learned a thing or two. But I’d rather do my thing and then go back into my own little world.

The family is like a diamond, with a rock solidity and divine splendor, held by love.

Thomas Wolfe warned in the title of America's great novel that "you can't go home again." I enjoyed the book but I never agreed with the title. I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.

I don't think love is something you can start and stop by choosing. Our hearts tell us who we will love, and not the other way.