#ily

Marry me, Kiara,” he blurts out in front of everyone. “Why?” she asks, challenging him. “Because I love you,” he says, walking up to her and bending down on one knee while he takes her hand in his, “and I want to go to sleep with you every night and wake up seein’ your face every mornin’, I want you to be the mother of my children, I want to fix cars with you and eat your crappy tofu tacos that you think are Mexican. I want to climb mountains with you and be challenged by you, I want to argue with you just so we can have crazy hot makeup sex. Marry me, because without you I’d be six feet under … and because I love your family like they’re my own … and because you’re my best friend and I want to grow old with you.” He starts tearing up, and it’s shocking because I’ve never seen him cry. “Marry me, Kiara Westford, because when I got shot the only thing I was thinkin’ about was comin’ back here and makin’ you my wife. Say yes, chica. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#engagement #kiara #love #proposal #family

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end. ↗

— Gabrielle Zevin

#family

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. ↗

— Adam Smith

#economics #family

It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#page- #family

Either way I don't come first, which for some stupid reason bothers hell out of me, having grown up with the notion that I always had to be number one. Family heritage, don't you know? ↗

— Erich Segal

#family

I think you’re possessed.” “Old news.” “Huh. Anyone I know?” “My dad. It’s a family issue I’m working on. ↗

— Devon Monk

#family

Snarl must love Christmas as much as me, I decided. ↗

— Rachel Cohn

#funny #ironic #funny

Trying to make someone love you is like trying to climb uphill during an avalanche. ↗

— Valerie J. Lewis Coleman

#stepfamily #stepmother #family

Dear Karma, I really hate you right now, you made your point. ↗