#ily

Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. ↗

— Gerald Durrell

#greece #travel #family

You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#family

U can feed ur ego or u can feed ur family. U can’t feed them both. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#family

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world. ↗

— Jane Austen

#furniture #lady #family

You want to know what I want? I'm sick of being a guinea pig. I'm sick, but I'm never f*cking sick enough for this family. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#sick #family

You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then. ↗

— Patricia C. Wrede

#good-sense #humor #family

But why people need privacy? Why privacy is important? In China, every family live together, grandparents, parents, daughter, son and their relatives too. Eat together and share everything, talk about everything. Privacy make people lonely. Privacy make family fallen apart. ↗

— Xiaolu Guo

#privacy #family

You know what will bring family and social issues front and center? If 2012 America sees middle-schoolers reenacting Lady Gaga videos. ↗

— Jim Geraghty

#social-conservatism #family

She wants you to be a god," I told him. "I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere. ↗

— Madeline Miller

#parents-and-children #family

I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write. I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up, that growing up with my family and friends, I had nothing to offer in any conversation. But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level. ↗

— Aaron Sorkin

#family