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“When I wake up on Sunday Mornings - late, you always let me sleep in - I come looking for you, and you're in the backyard with dirt on your knees and two little girls spinning around you in perfect...”
“Family's the most important thing.”
“Eby wanted to say so much to her. She wanted to say that waking up is the most important part of grieving, that so many women in their family failed to do it, and she was proud of Kate for fighting...”
“Family: a foundation! Family: a ‘cloth’ keeps the ‘body’!”
“Family: a foundation! Family: a ‘cloth’ that keeps the ‘body’!”
“The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at random, and get on as well as possible with the people...”
“...we should be grateful for them because without our family—the ancestors we descend from, the cousins we see once a year, the loves our lives we see every day—life is pretty boring.”
“She knows Daddy better than I do. I think it's because she's felt since we were children that our Daddy maybe loved me more than he loves her. This isn't true, and she knows that now--people love d...”
“Nan is the mortar that holds the tiles of their family together.”
“Rose leaned against the bathroom door. Here it was — her real life, the truth of who she was, barreling down on her like a bus with bad brakes. Here was the truth — she wasn’t the kind of person Ji...”
“Ian, man, I didna tell ye because I didna wish to lose you too. My brother was gone, and my father. I didna mean to lose my own heart's blood as well. For you are dearer to me even than home and fa...”
“Her youngest daughter shrugged. “Ain’t got no money, do we?” “I don’t understand. Why aren’t you pillaging like the rest of your kin?” “It was the Northlands, Da. Ain’t nothin’ to pillage but the c...”
“I am married to Beatrice Salkeld a painter. We have no children except me.”
“I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.”
“I have called the principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term of Natural Selection.”
“All happy families resemble one another every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
“The dark uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.”
“As a general thing when a woman wears the pants in a family she has a good right to them.”
“When family relations are no longer harmonious we have filial children and devoted parents.”
“Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life and to do it rightly is an art like any other.”
