“Ma famille incarne ce que la joie a de plus bruyant, de plus spectaculaire, l’écho inlassable des morts, et le retentissement du désastre.
Aujourd’hui je sais aussi qu’elle illustre, comme tant d’autres familles, le pouvoir de destruction du verbe, et celui du silence.”
Source: Rien ne s'oppose à la nuit
“By redirecting the focus of our lives from families and communities to institutions and networks, we, in effect, anoint a machine our king.”
Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
“You may call [Charis] angelic to be for ever trying to please everyone, and being sorry for those she can't please, but I don't! Addle-brained is what I call it!'
'Oh, no!' uttered Charis imploringly.
'Oh, yes!' he retorted. 'Told you so before! If you don't take care, Charis, you'll end by being sorry for yourself! All for the want of a little resolution! What if Mrs Dauntry and Frederica don't like it [a marriage between you and Endymion]? They'll come round! And you needn't look at me as ugly as bull-beef, Endymion, because I'll say what I choose to my own sister!”
Source: Frederica
“I guess god simply wants me to meet many wrong people before I meet the right one.”
Source: Bellamore: A Beautiful Love To Remember
“You might've lost me. The way I see it, if they're your family, either they'll love you no matter what, or fuck 'em.”
“Yeah, they don't work like that. They're more, _We're here for you no matter what you choose, as long as you choose what we want you to._ It's sort of the Model T Ford of emotional support.”
Source: Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake
“All that history, the love & laughter, is designed for youth. It is what keeps the story of who we are alive from one generation to the next. It ensures our indelible mark in the souls of generations we will never have the pleasure of holding in a warm embrace. Life is short people. Before you know it, another decade will pass, people you love will be lost to this world, and all that will be left of them is what we carry in our hearts." 2011”
“She craved a family, not having had enough of one to understand what a pain in the ass it was.”
Source: Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
“(Patrick Henry) He understood that the home was the foundation of a stable society and that the authority a man "exercised within the larger society was rooted in the authority exercised at home." Thus ... the training ground for all sound leadership is the family.”
Source: Give Me Liberty: The Uncompromising Statesmanship of Patrick Henry
“I wanted someone above me in the chain of life. I didn't want to be alone, a single blue egg in a crumbling nest.”
Source: The Book of Polly
“I’ve been real lost without her. Like, she was this compass I didn’t even know I had.”
Source: Dumplin'