“I hate it the way we always fight at mealtimes," Luke said. "It always feels like I'm getting ready to land on Normandy Beach when I sit down to this table.”
Source: The Prince of Tides
“People say, that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn't kill you, doesn't kill you.”
Source: Silver Sparrow
“He killed his wife and fed her corpse to the hogs!”
Source: Pop. 1280
“Holy Jesus, so the stinking son-of-a-bitch is really dead! I'm through with the dirty bastard at last!”
Source: Pop. 1280
“After growing up in isolation without any close friends, my family was everything to me.”
Source: To UnEat An Elephant: A Memoir
“Solana pressed her hand to her stomach and the fluttering increased. The baby’s response to the mother’s touch.
“I'll never let you down,” she said. But she wasn’t sure if she could keep that promise. She felt so heartbroken for Mylez, so heartbroken for his innocent son, Jabari, who would have to grow up without a mother.
Motherlessness—Solana knew what it felt like firsthand because her mother abandoned her. And it still hurt, although she was a grown adult who could hold her own when it happened.”
Source: Solana
“परिवार समाज की, और समाज सभ्यता की पहली ईसाई है, और यहाँ से ही संस्कृति पनपती है। अगर परिवार ही बेबुनियाद रिश्तों की भेंट चढ़ गये, तो समाज, सभ्यता और संस्कृति समाप्त।”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“Family first", Bel said. Not a threat, but a promise.”
Source: The Reappearance of Rachel Price
“Mom's friends were worried that their son isn't talking as much as other six-year-olds. They, like many parents, were concerned with how "smart" their kid is. "Should we be reading to him more?" they asked me. I thought of how lonely I felt trying to teach myself how to read as a foster kid. "Yeah," I replied. "But not because it will expand his vocabulary. Read to him because it will remind him that you love him.”
Source: Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
“I’d crossed the portal to the Spirit World looking for my family, for my life’s purpose; they weren’t what I’d expected, but I’d found them both in Faivendei.”
Source: Luminiferos: The Omen of Light