#families

I like to make jokes; I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who are in a situation beyond their control is not funny to them or their families. ↗

— Maria Shriver

#beyond #consider #control #families #funny

You help families focus on the future through their children. ↗

— Sam Worthington

#families #focus #future #help #their

Sometimes opposites attract, or so they say, but Paloma and Rocío were like arroz and mangú: they didn’t really mix well. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#family #family-drama #family-relationships #family-saga #hispanic

To have my life accepted as just another ordinary life, to have it viewed as common and regular, was a singular moment. ↗

— Katherine A. Briccetti

#families #lesbian-partners #sperm-donors #family

A family is a little world within doors; the miniature resemblance of the great worls without ↗

— Henry James

#family

As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families. ↗

— Marina Lewycka

#love #marriage #family

From character Henry Lee in the Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, " He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about". Love it! ↗

— Jamie Ford

#family

Shahid was the free spirit of the Kamal family: a dreamer, an idealist, a wanderer on the face of the earth--or, as Ahmed would put it, a lazy fuckwit. ↗

— John Lanchester

#families #free-spirits #idealists #laziness #wanderers

There's something to that in both directions," said Ekaterin mildly. "Nothing is more guaranteed to make one start acting like a child than to be treated like one. It's so infuriating. It took me the longest time to figure out how to stop falling into that trap." "Yes, exactly," said Kareen eagerly. "You understand! So—how did you make them stop?" "You can't make them—whoever your particular them is—do anything, really," said Ekaterin slowly. "Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste . . . years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just . . . take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that, and walk away. But that's hard. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#dysfunctional-families #family #mental-health #family