#families

Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#family #family

No, I wanted to say, he didn't cut off her hands because he didn't have to, he had cut them off long before, with years of keeping all authority in his own palms, all the rules and all the power and all the answers emanating from him and no one else. And if you don't understand that, if you've never been in such a family, then you can't know the way the mind shackles itself and amputates its own limbs so adeptly that you never think to miss them, never think that you had anything so obscene as choice. ↗

— Carolina De Robertis

#dysfunctional-families #family

Logically, I understand that it wasn't Edward's fault my family fell apart after he left. But when you're eleven years old, you don't give a flip about logic. You just really miss holding your big brother's hand. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#families #logic #perspective #family

Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me. ↗

— John Kennedy Toole

#motherhood #mrs-irene-riley #family

But wishing our Kansas soldiers 'God speed' is not enough. We need to comfort, care for, and protect their families. And we should ease the financial burdens that these families often face. ↗

— Kathleen Sebelius

#care #comfort #ease #enough #face

To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#because #college #drop #families #going

We covered this around Year Three, Bill: that you're the Master of Space and Time and I'm a spastic Pomeranian. ↗

— Tracy Letts

#family

The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#everywhere #extraordinary #extraordinary thing #families #family

Writers will happen in the best of families. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#families #happen #will #writers

Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#blind #blind eye #companies #congress #ends