#ily

...if you are overdressed, it is a comment on them. If you are under dressed, it is a comment on you. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#family

Certain women because of their female power and seductiveness could bring destruction to a family. ↗

— Margaret Way

#power #seduction #women #family

You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it. ↗

— Holly Black

#betrayal #family #guilt #guilty #love

The way I was brought up ‘he needed killing’ is an airtight alibi. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#blue-eyed-devil #family #killing #lisa-kleypas #family

Doctor MacKenzie says "Sometimes I think the Victorians had the right idea. When you lost a family member back then you were suppose to be in full mourning, dress in nothing but black, for a whole year. Then you went into something they called 'half mourning' for another full year, adn during those two years, you were pretty much expected to have emotional breakdowns, you could do it whenever you felt you needed to, and everybody would support you. Now?, A month after a tragedy, maybe two, and you're expected to be all better-or down pills so you can pretend you are. ↗

— Mercedes Lackey

#family

It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#fairies #hero-worship #john-f-kennedy #kennedy-family #politics

Family is not an important thing, it is everything ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#family

Health, wealth, happiness, live long and always prosper, have families and also friends, let them be lasting in me forever. ↗

— Toba Beta

#healthy #wealthy #family

I forced myself to stop thinking about it. I went to the room in my brain where all my thoughts about Adam lived and disconnected the electricity and boarded up all the doors and windows, so nothing could get out. Obviously it was very unsightly. There were bound to be complaints from the neighboring thoughts. But I had no choice. ↗

— Marian Keyes

#thoughts #family

He lied all the time even when there was no need to lie [...] He needed a _history_, a sense of self. [Burnside on his father, p. 22] ↗

— John Burnside

#father #history #lies #family