7,080 Quotes About Family

Blood is thicker, blood is brighter.

Everyone lives alone in families. Everyone goes alone into action, love, and work. Sometimes, it's why we work. Everyone goes alone into sickness, too.

A family is fragile. It is destroyed by this kind of violence. The things a child needs - really needs - must be actively, attentively sought. Listening. Patience. Deep time.

It was a mom and dad and several teenagers, the latter in various states of waking, ranging from blinking and stumbling to obviously sleepwalking.

Alex glanced at Sam and David, who looked soberly back at him. "Okay guys? Remember your training: 'A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must desire life like water and drink death like wine.

You're allowed to hold your family at arm's length, family can be toxic, family can be abusive, family can belittle you, invalidate you, or make you feel unsafe, you don't need to explain yourself to anyone who disagrees.

Father didn't want to seem weak in front of us and that itself was a weakness.

It was they who taught me that a conversation even between strangers could be a gift and sport of sorts, a chance for warmth, banter, blessings, humor, that spoken words could be fire at which you warmed yourself.

There was nothing I could ever give him that would be so beautiful because the only things I owned that were beautiful were not mine to give away. My mother. Gordo. Rico, Tanner, and Chris. They were the only things I had.