7,080 Quotes About Family

  • Author Lisa O'Donnell
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    He is deemed an inappropriate guardian, whereas my parents who neglected us every day of our waking lives were always deemed appropriate guardians on account of the DNA issue. No one wants to separate children from their parents, even when their parents are fucked-up delinquents.

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  • Author Ken Follett
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    It pleased Aliena that they were all together: she and Jack and their children, and Jack's mother, and Aliena's brother, and Martha. It was quite like an ordinary family, and Aliena could almost forget that her father had died in a dungeon, and she was legally married to Jack's stepbrother, and Ellen was an outlaw, and—She shook her head. It was no use pretending this was a normal family.

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  • Author Sarah Ockler
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    Family tragedies had a way of smashing everything apart and then gluing it all back together. The problem was no one ever knew how long the glue would hold.

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  • Author Alex Bosworth
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    I've seen enough family photos in enough homes to know that the term 'suitable for framing' should have a stricter definition.

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