7,080 Quotes About Family



  • Author Lisa Kleypas
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    He's part of my family.""You don't have a family, Ella."Although I had made similar comments in the past, it rankled to hear him say it. "We're individuals bound by a pattern of reciprocal obligation," I said. "If a group of chimps in the Amazon can be called a family, I think the Varners qualify.

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  • Author Indu Muralidharan
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    I hated this love that I had for my family—love that demanded my time and energy, that sought to control my life down to every thought and action.I now realize that it was not love but an unhealthy attachment, born out of a need for security and a sense of duty.

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  • Author Meg Jay
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    What no one tells twentysomethings like Emma is that finally, and suddenly, they can pick their own families - they can create their own families - and these are the families that life will be about. These are the families that will define the decades ahead.

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  • Author Fiodor Dostoïevski
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    Je n'ai gardé que d'excellents souvenirs de la maison paternelle; ce sont pour l'homme les plus précieux de tous, pourvu que l'amour et la concorde règnent un tant soit peu dans la famille. On peut même conserver un souvenir ému de la pire des familles, si l'on a une âme capable d'émotion.

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