7,080 Quotes About Family

Enemies are enemies, but no one can shame you like your own family.

Yeah well, I’ve never had much opportunity to fight with family,” I said. “I have,” she said. “Everyone cares about everyone else. So when you get mad and say something horrible, it hurts that much more. And too many things go unsaid. That’s the worst, I think. Everyone thinks they know one another better than they probably do, so you fill in the silences with things the other person never actually said. Or thought. Or thought about saying.

Sometimes you’ve just got to take a chance. Allow yourself to be vulnerable.

We walk all over the earth but it never complains of being a doormat. So we give it the highest title of love, adoration and family: praising it for mothering every species and the whole of all humanity.

An unforgivable amount of what needs to be said among family always remains unspoken.

Someone said I had smiled. But to my father, it was not a smile, just a small beautiful moment because he had not lost me forever.

All their lives Nath had understood, better than anyone, the lexicon of their family, the things they could never truly explain to outsiders: that a book or a dress meant more than something to read or something to wear; that attention came with expectations that—like snow—drifted and settled and crushed you with their weight.

Don't let anyone’s shit into your life

Enjoy the company of your loved ones while they are still alive.