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“Abe held a palmful of loose-leaf tobacco. He called it semaa—SAY-mah—and asked if I'd like to offer some to give thanks for my dad. I held out my hand. He nudged my other hand. "Left hand," he said. "Closer to your heart.”

Book:Sisters in the Wind

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“Native families are like onions—rough-looking on the outside. People want to people the outer layers and toss them away, as if they have no value. But each layer is protecting the next, down to its innermost core. That green center, where the onion is sweetest, that's the Native child. Surrounded by layers of family and community.”

Inspirational Community Family Native American American Indian

Book:Sisters in the Wind

Source: Sisters in the Wind

“People say parents die a little when they lose a child. But that’s not true. They die twice. Once when their child dies. And again when they do.”

Loss Family Resilience Bereavement Rief

Book:No Operator on Board: Pushback

Source: No Operator on Board: Pushback

“You will always have me,' she says. 'When you are my age, you will still have me. We are two peas in a pod, no? I'm part of you. I'm inside of you. Unfortunately for you, you won't be able to shake me.”

Love Loss Family

Book:Girls Girls Girls

Source: Girls Girls Girls

“But the true idea of a Christian home, is that it is a place for spiritual growth. It is a place for the parents themselves to grow—to grow into beauty of character, to grow in spiritual refinement, in knowledge, in strength, in wisdom, in patience, gentleness, kindliness, and all the Christian graces and virtues. It is a place for children to grow—to grow into physical vigor and health and to be trained in all that shall make them true and noble men and women.”

Family Homemaking

Book:Home Making

Source: Home Making

“No more do plants need sunshine and air—than children need joy and gladness. Unhappiness stunts them, so that their sweetest graces never come out.”

Family Homemaking

Book:Home Making

Source: Home Making

“My mother's uncle Bradley had ten sons and one daughter. Those pre-Nintendo numbers.”

Humor Family

Book:Calling for a Blanket Dance

Source: Calling for a Blanket Dance

“The thing about narcissists is that they have a pattern, and once you recognise the pattern, their power starts to crumble”

Politics Family Narcissism Carol Vorderman

Book:Now What?: A People's Manifesto for a Better Britain

Source: Now What?: A People's Manifesto for a Better Britain

“What with the lake and the railroads, and what with blizzards and floods and barn fires and forest fires and the general availability of shotguns and bear traps and homemade liquor and dynamite, what with the prevalence of loneliness and religion and the rages and ecstasies they induce, and the closeness of families, violence was inevitable.”

Family Violence And Humans

Book:Housekeeping ~ by MARILYNNE ROBINSON ~ First Edition ~ 1st Printing 1980

Source: Housekeeping ~ by MARILYNNE ROBINSON ~ First Edition ~ 1st Printing 1980

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