“Never let it happen to you as it did to me. That you wake in the morning, stare at the ceiling, ask yourself, 'What have I got to get up for today?' and answer... 'Nothing.”
Source: Depths of Glory: A Biographical Novel of Camille Pissarro
“The entire fucking point of being born is that someone is supposed to take care of you.”
Source: What I Carry
“The way she talks about family—the way everyone here does—is more foreign to Hannah than anything else. She has always had only Mama. To have dozens of people feels like a gift, a gift of love that she never expected. Because she is family, they love her. At the same time, their love is a pressure, a standard she will have to live up to.”
Source: Bride of the Sea: A Novel
“And the family you choose? That’s the strongest love of all.”
Source: Blood So Black
“...their heads turn. So does mine. To look back ahead.
Just as the sun rises.
With the six of us on this hill and the packed kale house behind us - I feel sentiments far beyond this sunrise, this morning, this moment. We filled an empty house.
I'm thirty-seven.
Just yesterday I was twenty and meeting some of these people -people that I'd spend my life with, that'd become my home.”
Source: Some Kind of Perfect
“He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred may neither understand you nor know your true worth.”
Source: The Wisdom of Gibran: Aphorisms and Maxims
“You must not allow yourself disappear to accommodate someone else’s ego”
Source: I Have A Secret I Must Tell
“Surround yourself with those who'll love you always, through your mistakes and your faults. Make a family that will find you more beautiful every day, even when your hair is white with age. Be the light that makes someone's lantern shines.”
Source: Six Crimson Cranes
“Finding meaning without children is difficult.”
Source: Adult Fantasy: Searching for True Maturity in an Age of Mortgages, Marriages, and Other Adult Milestones
“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.”