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“Being the eldest child is a sacred position. Be grateful to the Heavens for entrusting you with it.”

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Book:Live Your Life Regardless: Inspirational and motivational truths on faith, purpose, and self-empowerment for the african woman
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“We make such a fetish of the family. I think we've created a tremendous mythology about it. We believe the family must be maintained, it's the basis of society, etc. Yet for a great many of us, the family has been difficult. Many of the troubles of mankind are family troubles, more devastating and more lasting than other kinds of troubles. Almost any well-run orphanage would be better than some families I've known. There are countless unjust and narrow-minded families, and parents who bring up children in hatred for reasons that are invalid. Just being a family is not enough. There has to be agreement: not a narrowing but a widening, not bitterness and misunderstanding but sensibility and justice.”

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Book:Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River
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“You know that feeling when you kiss your dog's butthole goodnight but it tastes like your uncle's balls? This means that your dog is family. Feed it to your deformed baby with a side of apple sauce and Chromebook salad.”

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Book:Abraham Lincoln and Boston Corbett, With Personal Recollections of Each
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“This is a wonderful read-together book that might encourage little ones to wash up, and settle down for a cozy bedtime story with their loved ones and caregivers. Beautifully written in rhyme, with bright and vibrant cartoon-like illustrations, this book will become a bedtime favorite for children and adults alike.”

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Author:Reader's Choice Book Awards
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“It's just, families are strange things, aren't they? You have this couple: one man, one woman. A male and a female, if you will. They mate, and why? To leave children behind. And what are the children supposed to do? Turn around and do the whole thing over again? Well, what do you do when what you've got isn't worth carrying on? The things people do for family.”

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Book:The Hole
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“Gold chuckled, remembering the true thing F. told her another time. In a place where people threw their kids away all the time just for existing, a parent who loved you because you were your could sometimes look and feel like God. "But remember," F. had said, "that even when their love feels divine, they're not God. They're your parent. It's okay if you still don't know what that means. I don't either, because I mean, you know how my story goes. We don't have many examples. But what is life for, if not figuring it out, abi?”

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Author:Eloghosa Osunde
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“There's this whole theory that younger siblings are spoiled. That we're enfeebled from all the mollycoddling. Soft. That by the time it was our turn to rebel, our parents had already given up. I disagree with this wholly. It's first-born who can't take no for an answer. Younger kids have iron constitutions. Hardy hides from lifetimes of rejection. A hundred million entreaties for their older siblings to hang out answered by shoves, eye rolls, slammed doors, and stone-cold ditches followed by peals of laughter.”

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Book:Yolk
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“The way she talks about family—the way everyone here does—is more foreign to Hannah than anything else. She has always had only Mama. To have dozens of people feels like a gift, a gift of love that she never expected. Because she is family, they love her. At the same time, their love is a pressure, a standard she will have to live up to.”

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Book:Bride of the Sea: A Novel
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“In the temple, I sit on the cool floor next to Grandfather, beneath the stern benevolence of the goddess's glance. Grandfather is clad in only a traditional silk dhoti--no fancy modern clothes for him. That's one of the things I admire about him, how he is always unapologetically, uncompromisingly himself. His spine is erect and impatient; white hairs blaze across his chest.”

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Book:Oleander Girl
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“Unconditional love in my family was rare; you had to earn love, but it proved to be an elusive goal, the artist's vanishing point, unreachable in the distance. The more I tried to earn my parents' respect, the more it backfired, having the opposite effect (191).”

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Book:Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery
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