#ily

The problem is that we don't believe that we are much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholic and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one human family in this world, and to care about that family the way we care about our own. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#family #equality

When I'm 80 years old and sitting in my rocking chair, I'll be reading Harry Potter. And my family will say to me, 'After all this time?' And I will say, 'Always. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#nostalgia #reading #family

No matter what, you always will be my angel, the light that saved me from the darkness. ↗

— Ella Fox

#family

This is so weird. They're your brother and aunt." "No, I understand. They're your family too." Rhys said. "They loved you and raised you. That's what family is, right? ↗

— Amanda Hocking

#brother #family #love #family

Your mother is risking a lot, because she believes in you. ↗

— Matthew Quick

#family #love #moms #risk #unconditional-love

Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#cancer #death #family #jesse #jodi-picoult

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today? ↗

— Mary Manin Morrissey

#life #moving-on #relationships #life

Marry me, Kiara,” he blurts out in front of everyone. “Why?” she asks, challenging him. “Because I love you,” he says, walking up to her and bending down on one knee while he takes her hand in his, “and I want to go to sleep with you every night and wake up seein’ your face every mornin’, I want you to be the mother of my children, I want to fix cars with you and eat your crappy tofu tacos that you think are Mexican. I want to climb mountains with you and be challenged by you, I want to argue with you just so we can have crazy hot makeup sex. Marry me, because without you I’d be six feet under … and because I love your family like they’re my own … and because you’re my best friend and I want to grow old with you.” He starts tearing up, and it’s shocking because I’ve never seen him cry. “Marry me, Kiara Westford, because when I got shot the only thing I was thinkin’ about was comin’ back here and makin’ you my wife. Say yes, chica. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#engagement #kiara #love #proposal #family

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end. ↗

— Gabrielle Zevin

#family

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. ↗

— Adam Smith

#economics #family