#family

Your family's history does not have to be your future legacy! ↗

— Jayce O'Neal

#inspirational #family

Love isn't something you take from one to give to another. Love is to be shared among all; the more people we have in our family, the more love there will be to share. ↗

— P.A. Minyard

#romance #family

Sarene finally released him, wiping her eyes, disappointed in herself for crying again. Kiin simply placed a large hand on her shoulder and led her into the dining room, where the rest of the family sat around the table, even Adien. Lukel had been talking animatedly, but he cut off as he saw Sarene. "Speak the name of the lion," he said, quoting a Jindoeese proverb, "and he will come to feast. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#family

Where we goin’?” Wade whispers to me as we approach the white picket fence that surrounds the row of wooden crosses. For all I know my grandmother could be planning to shoot us and bury us with the rest of the family, but I don’t think it would help to share this notion with Wade ↗

— Carolee Dean

#wade #family

The one thing that I know about life, is that it doesn't always go as planned. What you do about it, is what makes you who you are. ↗

— Amber Ivers

#family

For Saffron," it said in shaky old writing on the damaged base, and on the other side, "Saffy's angel." Saffron, picking up the broken fragments one by one, said it didn't matter. She hugged Rose and Indigo and Caddy and Sarah, and said again and again that it didn't matter, it didn't matter at all. ↗

— Hilary McKay

#broken #family #family

it ain't as hard as picking cotton ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#american #bebop #family #jazz #life

The families of graduating seniors emptied out of cars, sheepish in uncommon splendor, like milling clans at the origin of a parade. There is something spent about the families of teenagers; possibly it's the look of exhausted loyalties. Perhaps it's only right that we grow overbig in someone else's space. Perhaps we need to tire and differentiate, leave and adapt. ↗

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

#family

The phrase "the violent bear it away" fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of one of her novels. O'Connor's surname connects her to an Irish royal family descended from Conchobor (pronounced "Connor"), the prehistoric king of Ulster who was foster father to Cuchulainn and "husband" of the unwilling Derdriu. In the western world, the antiquity of Irish lineages is exceeded only by that of the Jews. ↗

— Thomas Cahill

#irish #family

Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#family