7,080 Quotes About Family

—I don't believe in that shit, Oscar. That's our parents' shit.—It's ours too, he said.

The family trees of the poor don't grow to any height.

Our love became a casualty of my family tree

The Nolans just couldn't get enough of life. They lived their own lives up to the hilt but that wasn't enough. They had to fill in on the lives of all the people they made contact with.

I thought home needed to be tall and luminous, a glowing building with a luxurious setting. Status. What I failed to understand is home is not where I place my head down at night or the color of my furniture. Home is the people I surrounded myself with, the ones I break bread with. The keepers of my secrets and my fears. It is to be loved and to give love without inhibitions.

Maybe they were right — Friedrich and all the other Engel de Jánosi’s who got out and never told their children or grandchildren the whole truth. They didn’t want to burden or overload us with family history. Too much baggage meant we wouldn’t be able to move forward and into a bright future. Too much bitterness, anger, and sorrow leads us into that dark rabbit hole of despair. They didn’t want to introduce us to their ghosts. But those ghosts find us anyway.

Actually, before creating a family, it is necessary for a person to be already happy

It starts with the father. But for me, it started with my mother. My mother and her secrets.

It’s so difficult to say goodbye because, really, we’ve only just said hello.