7,080 Quotes About Family

It’s clearer and clearer as I get older that sometimes people that you share blood with are not coming along with you on the ride.

THE MOST FAMILIAR wedding rituals can transform themselves into meaningful traditions when it’s your wedding. The tossing of the bouquet, dancing with relatives you haven’t seen in years, the achingly embarrassing toasts…I wanted it all, and I loved every minute of this Christmas wedding.

She didn't want to go home to New England, to her family who would think of her as the girl who had gotten on the plane, a girl she had grown past, like a train overtaking the cars on the highway, heading into mountains and valleys that her family had never seen, wouldn't recognize. (p25)

There is nothjng better than to share bread with thy brother in the spirit of love.

There is nothing better than to share thy bread with thy brother in the spirit of love.

It was simply not possible for someone to be watching Peep Show one day and cease to exist the next.

Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted for too long a series of generations in the same worn-out soil.

I come from womenwho fend for themselvesthe blade is our friend and you?you are a weedI know how to slice you out of me

Alec’s friends were gathered all around him, and his family, and it wasone of those moments when he remembered the desperate loneliness ofwhen he was younger, hopelessly torn between fearing for what he mightnever have, and what he might lose. Alec secured his hold on Magnus’swaist and felt a small incredulous starburst of happiness in his chest: thathe could have all this.