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Dodie: "Mama, Jamie's up on the hill and he's f***g a goat!" Mama: "Well, it's Jamie's goat, ain't it?" -Peter Manso illustrates the brash wit pervasive in the Brando family with this exchange between Dodie Brando, Marlon's mother, and her mother in-law. ↗

— Peter Manso

#malon-brando #peter-manso #family

Oh, got no reason, got not shame Got no family I can blame Just don't let me disappear I'mma tell you everything ↗

— Ryan Tedder

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Will you be all right?" she asked How could I be? Would you be all right, I felt like screaming, if you'd just watched your family taken away, watched your entire town taken away, to be murdered. I'll never be alright. ↗

— Carol Matas

#murder #town #family

Something else you should really know about me. When I get nervous, my fingers shake. I’ve noticed this a lot recently. When mother and father argue and their voices are falling around the small family apartment, when their voices are banging against my bedroom door, I can feel my fingers start to move. I tell my fingers to stop and, sometimes, they do. But if I look at my hands closely, once I’ve told them to stop, and I try to focus on keeping them as still as possible, I notice that they are still moving. ↗

— Kerem Mermutlu

#young-adult-fiction #family

Because it is the lot of mothers to remember what no one else cares to, Mrs. Dutta thinks. To tell them over and over until they are lodged, perforce, in family lore. We are the keepers of the heart's dusty corners. ↗

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#mothers #family

In M---, an important town in northern Italy, the widowed Marquise of O---, a lady of unblemished reputation and the mother of several well-brought-up children, inserted the following announcement in the newspapers: that she had, without knowledge of the cause, come to find herself in a certain situation; that she would like the father of the child she was expecting to disclose his identity to her; that she was resolved, out of consideration to her family, to marry him. ↗

— Heinrich von Kleist

#pregnancy #family

Nona was as wacky as they came. ↗

— Holly Hood

#humor #family

In Africa, there is a birthrate trap: a higher standard of living will lead to smaller families but smaller families will not lead to a higher standard of living. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#birth-rate #family #socioeconomic-failure #socioeconomics #standard-of-living

Caleb offered me a family, but you offered me something worth so much more: myself. ↗

— Bree Despain

#caleb-kalbi #nathan-talbot #the-dark-divine #the-lost-saint #family

The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked ↗

— Meg Rosoff

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