“A parents wishes for their children shouldn't be to be as good as them but to surpass their own abilities and hopefully lead to a better world.”
“Reunion has taught me that there is no way to remake your history or your family in the image you want. But there can be more, if you are willing to look for those stories that were lost - you might just find someone new to forgive, to love, to grow with. Someone to take your hand and search *with* you.”
Source: All You Can Ever Know
“Flavia might not understand it, but I think I do. After seeing the way they were together, with no inhibitions; that’s the way you are with people you love.
I don’t say any of this to Flavia. Instead, I say, “Family can be difficult. Complicated. I get it.”
Source: The Henna Wars
“He can't love me and hate Lily. I might as well be sawed in half.”
Source: Some Kind of Perfect
“He's my idealistic son that dreams in undiscovered colours.”
Source: Some Kind of Perfect
“The tribal clans and royal dynasties that gave structure and stability to hunter-gatherer and civilized societies alike throughout most of human history could never have existed were it not for the deep emotional bonds forged in the crucible of family.”
Source: Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the Brink
“Maxi Paton was not a rescue puppy, but Maxi needed to be saved.”
“Our paranoia about parenting is a symptom of a society that feels less and less certain about what matters in life, and why. -- Charlotte Faircloth, founding member of the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies at the University of Kent”
Source: Adult Fantasy: Searching for True Maturity in an Age of Mortgages, Marriages, and Other Adult Milestones
“Children are objectively important, and require care, attntion, stimulation, education. In lives that lack centres, it makes sense that these concrete tasks could fill the void: if we cannot name the moral terrain of our lives, we can make parenting our crucial moral task. And if this results in giving too much space to our children, it is only because we do not know what that space might otherwise contain.”
Source: Adult Fantasy: Searching for True Maturity in an Age of Mortgages, Marriages, and Other Adult Milestones
“Twenty-five years of age, Jesse was young in years, but the fatherless boy had ridden a long, hard trail of poverty, hardship, and bigotry before his mother’s deathbed revelation directed his path to the Franklin family.”
Source: Thanksgiving