#ily

He likes driving very fast on the wrong side of the road," said Sarah. "Which I can completely understand. ↗

— Hilary McKay

#fast #life #nonconformity #family

If you don't understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child. ↗

— Linda Sunshine

#humor #family

What I love most about my home is who I share it with. ↗

— Tad Carpenter

#home #love #family

What matters right now is this: we're each of us standing here, together, alive, together. ↗

— Beth Revis

#inspirational #family

Relatives share the same bloodline, but FAMILY shares your successes, pains, ambitions, celebrations, failures, values, love and so much more. I realize that many friends have become Family and some relatives just are not. (Analogy: Blood scatters everywhere, when Family runs together...When I thought I needed "Blood" to survive, I realized that what I really needed was "Family"!) ↗

— Gaye Miller

#encouragement #family #realization #family

Yes, she was a scandal. Her brother simply didn’t know it. “I fell in the Serpentine today.” “Yes, well, that doesn’t usually happen to women in London. But it’s not so much of a scandal as it is a challenge. ↗

— Sarah MacLean

#humor #love #scandal #family

This last year... I learned something about family. Like it's not about blood alone. It's being connected... it's growing up together and loving each other. It's believing in the same God and knowing you'd do anything for the person across from you at dinner. ↗

— Karen Kingsbury

#family #inspirational #love #family

I was thinking how complicated life is and how there are no simple roads or paths. We are a fabric of mistakes and hurts; a family tree of fumbled attempts, successes and failures. ↗

— Belinda Jeffrey

#complicated #fabric #failures #family-tree #hurts

Where I come from, family's defined as those who don't screw you over a paycheck. Blood makes no difference. If you can trust them with your life and know that they'll be there come whatever hell rains down, then they're your family. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#family

[I]n Africa I was a member of a family—of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven't known for thousands of years. If gorillas were capable of such an expression, they would tell you that their family is like a hand, of which they are the fingers. They are fully aware of being a family but are very little aware of being individuals. Here in the zoo there were other gorillas—but there was no family. Five severed fingers do not make a hand. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#community #family #philosophy #family