7,080 Quotes About Family

It is important to create a family and bring up a child: these things are good and even necessary

But yeah, like everyone else in our family, they could go from zero to murderous in a fucking heartbeat.

The loss of that oral tradition and the breakdown of communication between generations had set my family adrift, floating aimlessly without history and all its accumulated experience to guide us. We need context, we need myths, we need family legends in order to see the invisible legacy that follows us, that tells us who we are.

I can be anything I want to be. Just wait and you will see. Only time will tell what I will be.

I'd let her sell it to Dad. They tended not to contradict each other so if one of them had already said "yes" it usually meant "yes." If one of them said "no", ditto--which was why I'd asked Mom first.

All our lives my brother and I were caught by the fictions my parents told us—fictions about themselves as well as others. Each wanted us to judge the other in his or her favor. Sometimes I felt cheated, as if they never allowed us to have a story of our own. It is only now that I understand how much their story was also mine.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad', and if you're planning on writing that's probably a good thing. But if you are planning on writing and they haven't fucked you up, well, you've got nothing to go on, so then they've fucked you up good and proper.

If we can prevent just one marriage from disintegrating--or just one child from suffering the loss of a family--our effort will be justified.

The family is one of the greatest traps that society has used for millennia to keep man a slave