7,080 Quotes About Family

  • Author Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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    In this manner, secretly, the Fortuny family let the years go by, silencing their hearts and their souls to the point where, from so much keeping quiet, they forgot the words with which to express their real feelings and the family became strangers living under the same roof, like so many other families living in the vast city.- Phoenix paperback, 2005, p.132

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  • Author Ivy Oakes
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    She looked into my eyes, and I felt as if someone saw me for the first time—not the responsible child, the promising student, or the ideal grandson. I felt like finally someone saw me as a person, without any title or obligations, without all the weight of a powerful last name and even heavier responsibilities.

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  • Author Rosemary Sutcliff
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    And Arthur, beginning to remember and trying not to, and suddenly more afraid than ever he had been in his life before, cried out "Father-Kay- why do you kneel to me? Get up! Oh sir, get up! I cannot bear that you should kneel to me, you who have been my father all these years."And when Sir Ector would not, he dropped on to his knees also, to be on a level with the old man again.

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