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“A parent is the compass carefully laid on the map of a child who has yet to understand that the present is nothing more than the place where the future begins, not the place where the future lives.”

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“Obviously, retired life in Florida didn't offer a whole lot of excitement. "Forty below in Fargo! she'd exlcaim. "I can't believe it! Why, at home it's probably seventy-five or eighty. It was always seventy-five or eighty at home, even when it was actually a hundred and twelve or in the midst of a hurricane.”

Humor Family Mystery Weather

Book:With Friends Like These...

Source: With Friends Like These...

“All her life, she wanted a house and a garden and a room of her own. But tucked inside that want was something else: a family. Parents who smothered her with love. Siblings who teased because they cared. Grandparents, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews—in her mind a family was a sprawling thing, an orchard full of roots and branches.”

Love Family Family Relationships

Book:Gallant

Source: Gallant

“Part of why I am what I am is all the bad choices my mom and dad made, and if they’d done differently, they’d still have made some mistakes somewhere along the line, and those would be part of me instead.”

Choices Family The Expanse

Book:Leviathan Falls

Source: Leviathan Falls

“Driving out of Lawton, I laid my hand onto Ever's quilt and traced my fingertips around the edges of the bird pattern. I couldn't help but wonder, tla, couldn't help but worry: Would my grandson ever be cured?”

Family Native American Literary Fiction

Book:Calling for a Blanket Dance

Source: Calling for a Blanket Dance

“The concrete can’t stop the separation of rotor from plane, the separation of father from daughter. There are crashes and then the walking away, the bleeding, and the shaky ride back.”

Healing Family Dysfunctional Families Fathers And Daughters

Book:Making Peace With Paradise: an autobiography of a California girl

Source: Making Peace With Paradise: an autobiography of a California girl

“Silence is one of the major contributing factors to people feeling inescapably stuck in their depression, their anxiety, their stress, their fear, their shame. If you’re suffering in silence, you’re not going to find a solution for it, because nobody knows. And we are not capable of getting ourselves out of a lot of these issues that we are facing, mentally and emotionally, particularly in today’s society, by ourselves. We need help. We need each other. We need commmunity. We need a tribe. We need family.”

Friendship Family Self Love Mental Health

Book:Radical Love: Learning to Accept Yourself and Others

Source: Radical Love: Learning to Accept Yourself and Others

“After a stranger asked where I'm from, I told him I'm from Florida, and he said he has been there once and he'd stayed a week. I replied, "Yes, I remember. We all waited for you to come back, and we wondered where you had gone. We cried out for you, but you never answered." Then I offered him a swig of duck soup, because I had a thermos full and we were now practically brothers.”

Family Absurd Ducks Florida Duck Tourism Duck Quote Duck Quotes Tourist

Book:Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

Source: Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

“Her father is a burden she shouldn’t have to carry, but she does. He had made her feel unsafe in the world when his one job was to make her feel protected.”

Father Relationships Family Connection Fatherhood Toxic Family

Book:Perfectly Entwined

Source: Perfectly Entwined

“Hikikomori cases are often best treated through clinical treatments that support the psychological growth of the person in withdrawal as well as adjustments to the environment, including the environment provided by the family.”

Family Adolescence Hikikomori Adolescence Without End Psychological Growth

Author:Saito Tamaki

“Having a writer in the family is like having a murderer in the family.”

Writing Family

Book:I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This

Source: I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This

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