7,080 Quotes About Family

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Considering family togetherness seems promising for understanding hygge in its most basic form. When we refer to hygge, we are using the concept of home and family to think with. -Jeppe Trolle Linnet

Sarojini admits he has a point; girls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women, and surely Bimal does a good job of that. But deep in a hidden place inside her that is stubborn as a mudfish, Sarojini knows she is right, too. Being loved a little more than necessary arms a girl in a different way.

Westerners drop / I love you’s / into conversation / like blueberries / hitting soft muffin dough / I convert it to shillings / wince.

We aren't always kind to one another, but want to be, and I believe that is the same thing.

I love reading (and writing) historical fiction.

Our families define us, sometimes in ways we cannot help or even know. I’m certain there are things about you that have come as a result of your family, of what you have faced with or because of them.” Mr. Snead

Funny what one's willing to do for family, isn't it?' Fan said, pulse pounding like a jackrabbit's. 'I take no pleasure in saying this, but we aren't as different as I thought.''Don't be so fucking sentimental,' I told him, and the blood was already flowing when Thom shouted.