“My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship with him just because he's my blood relative. It would bore me.” WantFatherBloodConversationAffectionRelativeBoresIncapableCarrying OnBlood Relatives Author:Kurt Cobain
“Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.” FamilyBloodRelativeYou ChooseBlood Relatives Author:Oliver Hudson
“Promised Lands was a better book in my opinion, and it's still my mother's favorite of the three I've done, but I doubt anyone who isn't a blood relative has ever heard of it. Which is to say expectations aren't worth much in the book world.” WorldStillsBookDoneMotherThreeOpinionDoubtHeardBloodLandExpectationsRelativePromised LandBlood Relatives Author:Elizabeth Crook
“There's that older poem of John Ashbery's-"America"-with the pun "I'm a wrecker," so wreckage and building out of the ashes of that. We're haunted by the genocide that is America, the decimation of so many native cultures. As a mix-blood European ancestry American, you're a nexus of all those violences, and yet there's a relative personal identity as well.” WellsAmericaCultureViolenceBloodIdentityBuildingNativeGenocideRelativeAshesAncestryPunWreckagePersonal IdentityNexus Author:Anne Waldman