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Xavier, you have given me more grey hairs than all my sons put together.’ Saul frowned, then corrected himself. ‘To be fair, you and Zed. Just try not to add to them tonight.


Joss Stirling


#father #humor #sons #family

It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone, hidden only God knows where.


James Clavell


#inner-self #japan #psychology #family

Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.


Yann Martel


#family

I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?


Ursula K. Le Guin


#glory #home #stories #family

As soon as we were inside, Edwart's family rushed to greet me. What seemed like thirty people circled me, chattering away. "Oh my god, you smell good." "Good smell, good smell." "(she really does smell good.)" "do you mind if I put my nose right on you? Right on your arm?" "More smelly smelly please." "If I could destroy every part of my brain except the part that smelled your smell, I would do it. I would do it in a second." "Let's go, Belle," Edwart whispered and grabbed my hand. We pushed through the ravenous vampires nad out the front door. "So that went well!" I said outside in the U-HAUL. I sniffed my hair. I did smell good. "No, no, that wasn't my house," Edwart said, starting the truck. "I don't even know those people! Sometimes I get addresses confused.


The Harvard Lampoon


#edwart-mullen #nightlight #family

Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your readers will recognize in their own lives. Think small and you'll wind up finding the big themes in your family saga.


William Knowlton Zinsser


#writing #family

Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.


Gerald Durrell


#greece #travel #family

You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.


Madeleine L'Engle


#family

U can feed ur ego or u can feed ur family. U can’t feed them both.


Zig Ziglar


#family

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.


Jane Austen


#furniture #lady #family






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