7,080 Quotes About Family

On Adventure – “Adventure” is the word we give life-threatening, perilous situations when we’re sitting by the fire afterwards recounting them to our friends, family and skeptical strangers.

Everyone deserves to have someone to come home to.

I'm not smart enough to know how to really fix things. I just know that, in trying, we've found family, we've found home, we've found some strange splendor.

I'm looking for some kind of permanence, so my mark will linger on the world once I'm gone, in the places where I found joy..

It's in these moments, next to you, that I envy words for doing what we can never do-- how they can tell all of themselves simply by standing still, simply by being. Imagine I could lie down beside you and my whole body, every cell, radiates a clear, singular meaning, not so much a writer as a word pressed down beside you.

To live is to grieve.

In many ways, food was how my mother expressed her love. No matter how critical or cruel she seemed—constantly pushing me to be what she felt was the best version of myself—I could always feel her affection radiating from the lunches she packed and the meals she prepared for me just the way I liked them.

Friends are a family in a world like this. And family is more important than anything under heaven.

I can't change what my ancestors did. I can only hope to repair some of the damage and set us on a different course.