7,080 Quotes About Family

I tell a friend that I hope for Mother's death, and he is shocked; he sees it as a failure in my love toward her. Perhaps it is. I don't know.

When you have to save the ones you love, you will become someone else, something else. You will transform. The only real magic is the things we'll do for the ones we love.

Det går ikke, at I flytter. I må ikke. Det kan I ikke. Alting må forsvinde, alle kan forsvinde, bare ikke min bror. Ikke også ham. Nu har jeg ikke nogen tilbage. Nu er jeg helt alene.

Der dufter af kaffe i entreen, og min bror, min elskede bror og bedste ven, tager imod mig med et kram. Jeg forsvinder i hans favn et øjeblik, lukker øjnene, græder, hulker, snøfter, vil ikke ud derfra.

Det er trygt at have ham der. Vi kan befinde os i hinandens nærhed i timevis uden at tale sammen. Han læser mig bedre end nogen anden, og vores kommunikation er ofte helt ordløs. Jeg sætter lige så meget pris på hans tilstedeværelse som på hans evne til ikke hele tiden at ville tale om alting.

[Single or lesbian motherhood] can be seen as [one] of the most violent forms taken by the rejection of the symbolic ... as well as one of the most fervent divinizations of maternal power - all of which cannot help but trouble an entire moral and legal order without, however, proposing an alternative to it

So treasure your family every day, hug them and say you love them and your days will turn into beautiful days you always wanted to have.

My annual pilgrimages to the dead involve a good deal of talking to myself (which serves as my principal internal gyroscope) and increasingly confirm that the older I get the more the dead take hold of me. I like the notion that my heart is a temple of memory in which they intermittently reside. I feel compelled, in some way or other, to complete their lives, to honor their gifts and sacrifices.

Also, he set great store on a man doing right by his family.