“What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed in there, regardless. It wasn't just about blood relations or shared chromosomes, but something wider, bigger. Cora was right - we had many families over time. Our family of origion, the family we created, as well as the gorups you moved thorugh while all of this was happening: friends, lovers, sometimes even strangers. None of them were perfect, and we couldn't expect them to be. You couldn't make any one person your world. The trick was to take what each could give you and build a world from it.” PeopleWorldGivingPersonsSometimesWholePerfectBloodLoversBiggerRelationStrangerTricksBe YouBlood Relation Author:Sarah Dessen
“It was a dagger in the haughty father's heart, an arrow in his brain, to see how the flesh and blood he could not disown clung to this obscure stranger, and he sitting by. Not that he cared to whom his daughter turned, or from whom turned away. The swift sharp agony struck through him, as he thought of what his son might do.” HeartCharacterMightFatherInterestingBrainBloodSonDaughterSittingStrangerFleshAgonyObscureArrowsFlesh And BloodDaggersInteresting CharactersHaughty Book:Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne Source: Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne
“It's hard to force a relationship with a stranger even if they happen to be someone you happen to share blood with.” IfsHardHappensForceBloodShareStranger Author:Angel Olsen
“There are too many of us, he thought. There are billions of us and that's too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you. Strangers come and cut your heart out. Strangers come and take your blood. Good God, who were those men? I never saw them before in my life!” KnowsMenHeartSawsCuttingBloodStrangerBillionsNobody KnowsGood God Book:Fahrenheit 451: A Novel Source: Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
“Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man with his mouth.” MenKindWarDoneHelpingHandsPassionPeaceAnimalDealsBloodColdMouthsUniversalSpeciesCalmStrangerHarmCampaignsMarchBrotherhoodWagesQuarrelsPulseSlaughterAtrocitiesIntervalsBrethrenNo WarGoing To WarBrotherhood Of Man Author:Mark Twain