“As I child, I came to this idea with a horrified fascination. Once upon a time, I wasn’t here. Before that, my parents weren’t here. And before that…”
Source: A Lie About My Father: A Memoir
“Blood is thicker than water, I know, but it's unnatural stuff to drink so much of. (“The Wife Of Ted Wickham”)”
Source: Dusky Ruth and Other Stories
“When dancing with a pit bull, it's always best to let him lead.”
Source: Eden Fading
“You can say that Lebanese has hundreds of lexemes for family relations. Family to the Lebanese is as snow to the Inuit.”
Source: The Hakawati
“Will you be all right?" she asked
How could I be?
Would you be all right, I felt like screaming, if you'd just watched your family taken away, watched your entire town taken away, to be murdered. I'll never be alright.”
Source: Greater Than Angels
“Bett didn't have any siblings because she said her father had preserved what was dead for too long to be able to create life. When Bet was younger and had begged for one, her father gave her a marmot he' stuffed for a man from Wyoming.
"This is your brother Christopher," he'd said, placing the marmot on Bett's pillow one night. "He doesn't talk much, so you'll have to pick up the slack there.”
Source: The Bird Sisters
“Wer einmal sich selbst gefunden, kann nichts auf dieser Welt mehr verlieren.”
“Come morning, his memory would be of a night spent watching over them all. And each of them - dog and boy, mother and old man - would feel the same.”
Source: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
“ten reasons to love being queer
viii.
the people within our community are so supportive and so caring and so loving, most of the time towards people they don’t even know
and it is in moments like that when you realize that the queer community is more than a community
we are a family”
Source: Have Some Pride: A Collection of LGBTQ+ Inspired Poetry
“That child who sprang from my own flesh and blood is perhaps the creature I'm most distant from.”
Source: Concerning My Daughter