7,080 Quotes About Family

Mom has reorganized the kitchen so that the one room that was everyone's room is foreign to me. My visits are punctuated with me whipping around, angrily demanding, "Where are the forks, WHY DID YOU MOVE THE FORKS?" and she has to calmly open the drawer on the other side of the kitchen as if she moved it just to ruin my life. I just found out where she puts the bowls and their new location feels like such a personal attack that I can barely talk about it without raising my blood pressure.

My home is not a place; it's people.

Later that afternoon the house is quiet; Usha knows that it is a forced and eerie quiet that comes with emptiness rather than with the fullness of serenity.

Even the worst things about Devonairre Street are better than the rest of the city.

Under her thick pancake makeup, her skin had been pockmarked, but he would stare at her adoringly from his cot at night and imagine her scars were constellations, a secret map to a far-off, happy place.

Family accents are to be accepted as the ideal language of life and love

The home is always a home and a noble place for shaping hearts! A good home is good for life!

Actually, Jake said, isn't life what we make it, wherever we are, whenever we may be - wherever it is that we are?

Afghanistan changed him, but Iraq sculpted him.