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“When love can no longer be sustained just by our feelings, we build a foundation for it to stand on: our active commitment.”

Book:What it Means When I Say 'I Do'

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“We are ten gallon people, but we may have been born into families of people who have pint capacities. When you are a ten-gallon person and you want love, you want it on a ten-gallon level. But if you fool around and hook up with a pint person, they could be giving you all that they have — sincerely giving you everything, but it doesn't fill you up, because you're bigger than that.”

Love Relationships Family

Author:Bishop T.D. Jakes

“He tilts his head dramatically to one side, as if his neck muscles have suddenly deteriorated, and stares at me before finally asking, “Remember me?”

Humor Family Nostalgia

Book:The Shape of New Beginnings

Source: The Shape of New Beginnings

“Nona moved over to give him a hug. She hugged him like Camilla would have, the one thing she was truly good at, and he fell into it immediately. He put his head on her shoulder and breathed in deep through his nose.”

Family

Book:Nona the Ninth

Source: Nona the Ninth

“I think nobody owns land until their dead are in it.”

Self Past Family Identity Place

Book:Run River

Source: Run River

“It will ground you, you know, help you understand your place. Knowing my mob, where I'm from, well, everything comes from that.”

Family Aboriginal Culture

Book:Borderland

Source: Borderland

“What if the real Minu was out there in the world somewhere? And here I was, trapped in this awful life I wasn’t supposed to be living.”

Family Identity Betrayal Family Life Truth And Lies Family Secrets

Book:The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth

Source: The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth

“Family is like music; some days are high notes, some days are off key, but the melody is always beautiful.”

Love Relationships Family Harmony Chaos Unconditional Love Togetherness Life Symphony

Book:Beyond the Bouquet: A Symphony of Love in Fifty Movements

Source: Beyond the Bouquet: A Symphony of Love in Fifty Movements

“Mr. Arnold Waite—husband, parent, man of his word—invariably leaned back in his chair after his second cup of breakfast coffee and looked with some disbelief at his wife and two children.”

Father Family Opening Line

Book:Hangsaman

Source: Hangsaman

“Oblong cocooned little visitor, the baby shows her profile blindly in the shuddering flashes of color jerking from the Sony, the tiny stitchless seam of the closed eyelid aslant, lips bubbled forward beneath the whorled nose as if in delicate disdain, she knows she’s good. You can feel in the curve of the cranium she’s feminine, that shows from the first day. Through all this she has pushed to be here, in his lap, his hands, a real presence hardly weighing anything but alive. Fortune’s hostage, heart’s desire, a granddaughter. His. Another nail in his coffin. His.”

Family Self Awareness Babies Continuation

Book:Rabbit is Rich

Source: Rabbit is Rich

“You messed up, Pete' 'Peak,' I said 'Weird name' 'Weird parents”

Family Mountain Climbing Peak

Book:Peak

Source: Peak

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