#family

Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt. ↗

— Kay Redfield Jamison

#humour #love #family

Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#haunting #imaginative #inspirational #murder #personal-growth

When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#family #fiction #love #the-story-sisters #family

I love Jere more than anybody. He’s my brother, my family. I hate myself for doing this. But when I see you two together, I hate him too.” His voice broke. “Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me. ↗

— Jenny Han

#family

Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way. ↗

— Holly Black

#humor #star-trek #tv-reference #family

You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life ↗

— Matthew Quick

#life-and-living #priorities #time #family

What is home? My favorite definition is "a safe place," a place where one is free from attack, a place where one experiences secure relationships and affirmation. It's a place where people share and understand each other. Its relationships are nurturing. The people in it do not need to be perfect; instead, they need to be honest, loving, supportive, recognizing a common humanity that makes all of us vulnerable. ↗

— Gladys Hunt

#home #love #respect #support #experience

In really bad times, the hungriest would gather at his door at nightfall, vying for the chance to earn a few coins to feed their families by selling their bodies. Had I been older when my father died, I might have been among them. Instead I learned to hunt. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#family

But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#family #relationships #equality

Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#family #love #family