7,080 Quotes About Family




  • Author Celeste Ng
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    Everything that loomed so large close up - all you had to do was step away, and they shrank to nothing. You could stop taking their phone calls, tear up their letters, pretend they'd never existed. Start over as a new person with a new life. Just a problem of geography, he thought, with the confidence of someone who had never yet tried to free himself of family.

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  • Author Elizabeth Acevedo
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    People say that you’re stuck with the family you’re born into. And for most people, that’s probably true. But we all make choices about people. Who you want to hold close, who we want to remain in our lives, and who we are just fine without.

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  • Author Madeleine Thien
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    I felt she saw into me, past every facade and flourish, and that the more she knew me, the more she loved me. I was too young, then, to know how lasting this kind of love is, how rarely it comes in one's life, how difficult it is to accept oneself, let alone another.

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  • Author Markus Zusak
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    A few nights later, however, Hans Hubermann came home with a box of eggs. “Sorry, Mama.” He placed them on the table. “They were all out of shoes.

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