7,080 Quotes About Family

My sister and I are so close that we finish each other’s sentences and often wonder who’s memories belong to whom.

She has never tried to find out what happened to her family — her mother or her relatives in Ireland. But over and over, Molly begins to understand as she listens to the tapes, Vivian has come back to the idea that the people who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our most ordinary moments. They're with us in the grocery store, as we turn a corner, chat with a friend. They rise up through the pavement; we absorb them through our soles.

Seeing your mother naked is not something you easily recover from. Seeing your mother naked and jumping from one side of a king-sized bed to the other with a nurse's hat on while your father, who is also naked, is chasing her with a bandanna around his neck, is reason to put yourself up for adoption.

If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal side of them.

And the pomegranates,/like memories, are bittersweet/as we huddle together,/remembering just how good/life used to be

They say blood is thicker than water, but I say ice, can be more solid than blood, when times get cold.

God helps everything come to pass. However, he reminds us that nothing comes to stay.

Love, love again.

I will always love my mother for who she is and everything she does.