“Lovers and even some family members may come and go but the friendships that take root abide. Sometimes the best of what is true survives as if it had an independent will: The coals of friendship keep themselves alive until something happens to rekindle them.” IfsMaySometimesHappensFriendshipAliveLoversMembersRootsIndependentThings HappenCoalComes And GoesFamily Members Author:Joan Frank
“I just want that unconditional love, the kind you get with a family member. You might get lucky enough to find that unconditional love in a friend or a lover, but it's very rare. So if I ever have a kid, it'd be so that I could look in those eyes and know that this child is a piece of me and will love me the same way I love, but I think that's selfish of me.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayWantLooksKindChildrenEnoughMightEyeKidsPiecesLoversLuckyMembersSelfishUnconditional LoveUnconditionalFamily Members Author:Michelle Rodriguez
“Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to claim to know anyone after such a distance.” PeopleKnowsYearsLongHappensFacesLoversMembersLong TimeClaimsTwentiesDistanceStrangerFamiliarOld FriendsFamily MembersFamiliar Faces Book:Some Kind of Fairy Tale Source: Some Kind of Fairy Tale
“This same formula by which Buddhists so anti-rationalistically and anti-banausically describe the "relation" between soul and body also applies to the relation between lover and lover, parent and child, member and community.” ChildrenSoulBodyParentCommunityLoversMembersRelationBuddhistFormulasChildren And ParentsSoul And Body Author:Kenny Smith
“I think that's actually what draws me to family stories: the various roles we each play with each member of our families, and how different they can be from who we are with our friends and partners and lovers. I'm endlessly fascinated by how we navigate these family dynamics; they are the dramas each of us live out day after day, often in ways we don't even realize.” ThinkingWayDifferentPlayStoriesRealizingRolesLoversDramaMembersDrawsVariousPartnersOur FamilyWho We AreFascinatedNavigateDynamics Author:Christopher Castellani
“The only way I've been able to survive the betrayal of lovers, family members, and society is to be able to create as an artist.” WayAbleArtistLoversMembersBetrayalFamily Members Author:Madonna Ciccone