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“I have more concern for my nephew's welfare than for Lannister pride.”

Book:A Game of Thrones

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“All he wanted was enough time to consider all his options without being dragged into his household’s petty squabbles or being nagged by his wife about that damnable pilgrimage. Was that so much to ask? Apparently so, for he’d yet to find a peaceful moment at Caen, not with Marguerite sulking and Aimar lurking and Will acting put-upon and Geoff wanting to lay plans and Richard strutting around as if he were the incarnation of Roland and poor Tilda grieving over Maman’s absence and his father refusing to heed any voice but his own.”

Family Humour

Book:Devil's Brood

Source: Devil's Brood

“At home, they'd clipped my wings and then caged me so I couldn't fall. Here, they bandaged one another's broken wings, helped each other fly.”

Family

Book:Don't Breathe a Word

Source: Don't Breathe a Word

“Family is just accident, Jessie. It's nothing personal, hon. They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.”

Family

Book:'Night, Mother

Source: 'Night, Mother

“You must try to have a positive attitude. It does not matter how small a person is. One can still change the future. Size is only a state of mind. You know – it is how you use your wits that counts. Nothing can stop us, if we put our hearts into it. Anything is achievable girls, anything at all!”

Family Fantasy Magic Adventure Fairies Suspence

Book:Shrinking Forward

Source: Shrinking Forward

“Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.”

“Self-education is a lifetime affair. In life, as in science, there are unsuccessful experiments. Difficult personal and professional experiences are not for naught. Every experience contains a lesson. If we do not achieve the results we want and stop searching out solutions, it is not the experiment that is unsuccessful, but the person.”

Life Lessons Life Lesson Quotes Self Education Life Lessons Quote Self Education Never Ends

Book:Dead Toad Scrolls

Source: Dead Toad Scrolls

“It's so easy to focus on the anguish and the misery; it's harder, somehow, to acknowledge the positive, maybe for fear of jinxing it, bringing the nightmare back down on our heads.”

Family Struggle Anorexia Teenage Years

Book:Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia

Source: Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia

“Christmas was definitely the best thing ever, even better than pizza. But instead of all her favorite toppings, Amitola was surrounded by all her favorite people.”

Together Family Christmas Pizza Amitola Favorite People

Book:Jungle Princess

Source: Jungle Princess

“The world is full of unrequited love,' I said finally. 'You and Patrick having problems?' Dad said, reaching around to get the butter out of the fridge. 'No, I was just wondering what you would say if I was a lesbian.' 'Come again?' said Lester. 'I'm having a hard time following this conversation.”

Love Funny Father Family Brother Conversation Dinner Sexuality Problems Unrequited Love Lesbian Random Alice Fridge

Book:Alice on the Outside

Source: Alice on the Outside

“The only persons who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.”

Children Education Family Parenting Parents

Book:What's Wrong with the World

Source: What's Wrong with the World

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