182 quotes found
“Do I raise the dead when I put him behind bars? Then what'll I do it for? We used to shoot a man who acted like a dog, but honor was real there, you were protecting something. But here? This is the...”
“This is how it essentially is for Bunny Junior. He loves his dad. He thinks there is no dad better, cleverer, or more capable, and he stands there beside him with a sense of pride he's my dad and...”
“I consider you mine, because Donna considered you hers.”
“You are the posterity of your family. You are either continuing the progression or regression of your ancestors.”
“There are all sorts of families," Tom's grandmother had remarked, and over the following few weeks Tom became part of the Casson family, as Micheal and Sarah and Derek-from-the-camp had done before...”
“To a child love is spelled T-I-M-E.”
“When you're sorting yourself out, family are not often the ones you can turn to. They represent the place of departure and not the place of arrival.”
“I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.”
“She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.”
“...Families are Forever, and wondered if the slogan was meant as a promise or a threat.”
“Kat looked down at her lemonade. 'Do you think he betrayed the love of his life...because of us?''She used the name Romani, Kat,' was Gabrielle's answer. 'And besides...' She let the words draw out...”
“Because I miss them. Because I need them. Because I love them.”
“We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.”
“the harsh truth of every relationship, even between those who love each other, like fathers and sons and daughters, or husbands and wives, is that the love is always unequal.”
“With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it's there. Better late than never.”
“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.”
“You mustn't stand about. Come home with me to dinner.No. More shakes his head. I would rather be blown around on the river and go home hungry. If I could trust you only to put food in my mouth but...”
“In my family strange is relative.”
“The boughs, without becoming detached from the trunk grow away from it.”
“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 famil...”
