“...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.”
“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