#relation

Sarene finally released him, wiping her eyes, disappointed in herself for crying again. Kiin simply placed a large hand on her shoulder and led her into the dining room, where the rest of the family sat around the table, even Adien. Lukel had been talking animatedly, but he cut off as he saw Sarene. "Speak the name of the lion," he said, quoting a Jindoeese proverb, "and he will come to feast. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#family

Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#family

I used to live with someone of the opposite sex. It’s called a sister, and I don’t have one.
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— Jarod Kintz

#relationships #sister #women #family

I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#family #relationships #separation #family

Every family has one living patriarch or matriarch, the final arbiter and repository of ancient family history, and Nicole's Aunt Patti was the last woman standing. ↗

— Liz Rosenberg

#family-relationships #family

You are the posterity of your family. You are either continuing the progression or regression of your ancestors. ↗

— Johnnie Dent Jr.

#legacy #political #family

All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way-if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy. ↗

— John Knowles

#life #relationships #friendship

Being in a relationship doesn’t mean that you never get aroused by anything else ever again. It just means that you don’t act on it. I think it’s healthy to maintain the ability to be aroused in other situations. Relationships shouldn’t be a prison. You’d have gotten hard before, and you should now. As long as you know that the only person you’re going to be sliding your big hard cock in to, we’re fine. There really is a happy medium between the craziness of your parents with their compulsion to continue having sex with anyone they wanted, and couples who expect one another to be perfect at all times with the idea that no feelings of sexuality outside of the relationship are acceptable. Both of those types of relationships would never work for me. What’s perfect for me is that we stay ourselves, and make each other truly happy ↗

— Ella Fox

#family

I could feel the hard part of Mom very strongly that time. It was like a stone in her that grew bigger every time my father lost his temper, right under her heart. Feeling the stone in her calmed me down. It told me that she would always be there for me. ↗

— Kaimana Wolff

#strength-through-adversity #family

I’d put more distance between us. Having us here, always together hasn’t allowed for any fondness to grow between us. ↗

— Courtney Miller Santo

#family