#ily

I’d put more distance between us. Having us here, always together hasn’t allowed for any fondness to grow between us. ↗

— Courtney Miller Santo

#family

That's my town,' Joaquin said. 'What a fine town, but how the buena gente, the good people of that town, have suffered in this war.' Then, his face grave, 'There they shot my father. My mother. My brother-in-law and now my sister.' 'What barbarians,' Robert Jordan said. How many times had he heard this? How many times had he watched people say it with difficulty? How many times had he seen their eyes fill and their throats harden with the difficulty of saying my father, or my brother, or my mother, or my sister? He could not remember how many times he heard them mention their dead in this way. Nearly always they spoke as this boy did now; suddenly and apropos of the mention of the town and always you said, 'What barbarians. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#family #violence #war #death

I open my heart to her and lay it on the table. ↗

— Jennifer Haigh

#family-secrets #mothers-and-daughers #religion #faith

Lou looked at Davis there praying like God was in his heart and home, while his family remained behind in rags and fear and would have starved except for the kindness of Louisa Cardinal. She could only shake her head. ↗

— David Baldacci

#wish-you-well #family

As I held the family Bible in my hand and I could almost feel the joys and sorrows that connected me to the past. ↗

— Nancy B. Brewer

#family

If Arkansas is, indeed, one big family, Eureka Springs remains its eccentric uncle. ↗

— Rex Nelson

#humor #family

We goan start promptly at seven o'clock, so be sure to take care of all your bodily needs and functions before we get started. ↗

— Charmaine T. Davis

#family-comedy #humor #family

The laws of genetics apply even if you refuse to learn them. ↗

— Allison Plowden

#hemophilia #royal-family #family

I remember my brother as such a gentle and loving child, the best big brother a girl could hope for, but I remember when I started to sense our family's world tilting on its axis, the kaleidoscope turning, when things started to go wrong. From then on, it was like we were still ourselves, but our lives played out as though reflected back to us from a funhouse mirror. ↗

— Jessica Warman

#life #upside-down #family

All family stories are important, just as all people are important, and they deserve to be passed along. ↗

— Karen Chamberlain

#memoir #naval-aviation #naval-history #war #family