#am

when a child gives you a gift, even if it is a rock they just picked up, exude gratitude. it may be the only thing they have to give, and they have chosen to give it to you ↗

— Dean Jackson

#family

I possess an object that reminds me of your stepdad’s bowel movements. It’s brown and squishy and smells like yesterday.
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— Jarod Kintz

#crap #family #feces #funny #humor

When your family is twice as weird as normal, you have to be twice as polite to authority, because authority hates weird. ↗

— Rosemary Clement-Moore

#politeness #family

Dag lieve Geert [van Oorschot], Gelukgewenst, allereerst met het nieuwe jaar, je nieuwe hart, je nieuwe eredoctoraart, je hele nieuwe leven! Dankzij jou en jullie jubileumboek ben ik nu ingelijfd bij de literatuur, althans dat roept met algemeen. Ik voel me de bejaarde hoer die plotseling op visite mag bij de streng calvinistische familie. Ze zijn vriendelijk... Tot ziens en liefs, Annie ↗

— Annie M.G. Schmidt

#family

In my family, you can rot to hell on the inside as long as you’re flawless on the outside, which is really sick, but also hard to unlearn. ↗

— Laura Wiess

#family #sexual-abuse #family

...we should be grateful for them because without our family—the ancestors we descend from, the cousins we see once a year, the loves our lives we see every day—life is pretty boring. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#family-relationships #love #family

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#fathers-and-sons #family

You could become paralyzed with worry about what might happen to your family, or if you hadn’t yet had children you could decide not to, as a sort of proactive damage control. Either way, you would be derailing your life voluntarily out of fear that it might become ruined by chance. Or you could pick up and move on. Those were the only choices. ↗

— Nichole Bernier

#fear #move-on #family

Do I raise the dead when I put him behind bars? Then what'll I do it for? We used to shoot a man who acted like a dog, but honor was real there, you were protecting something. But here? This is the land of the great big dogs, you don't love a man here, you eat him! ↗

— Arthur Miller

#honor #principle #family

In a shelter meant for battered women, there were only two reasons a person would decide to leave. One, she had decided to launch out on her own and begin a new life. Or two, she had decided to go back to the one who had hurt her. It happened all the time. Some women came here seven or eight times before they made the choice to give up on their marriages and refuse to live in a dangerous place. ↗

— Deborah Bedford A Morning Like This

#family #marriage #pain #women #family