#ily

The one thing that I know about life, is that it doesn't always go as planned. What you do about it, is what makes you who you are. ↗

— Amber Ivers

#family

For Saffron," it said in shaky old writing on the damaged base, and on the other side, "Saffy's angel." Saffron, picking up the broken fragments one by one, said it didn't matter. She hugged Rose and Indigo and Caddy and Sarah, and said again and again that it didn't matter, it didn't matter at all. ↗

— Hilary McKay

#broken #family #family

it ain't as hard as picking cotton ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#american #bebop #family #jazz #life

The families of graduating seniors emptied out of cars, sheepish in uncommon splendor, like milling clans at the origin of a parade. There is something spent about the families of teenagers; possibly it's the look of exhausted loyalties. Perhaps it's only right that we grow overbig in someone else's space. Perhaps we need to tire and differentiate, leave and adapt. ↗

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

#family

The phrase "the violent bear it away" fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of one of her novels. O'Connor's surname connects her to an Irish royal family descended from Conchobor (pronounced "Connor"), the prehistoric king of Ulster who was foster father to Cuchulainn and "husband" of the unwilling Derdriu. In the western world, the antiquity of Irish lineages is exceeded only by that of the Jews. ↗

— Thomas Cahill

#irish #family

Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#family

Jesus never asked me to give to an organization the kind of exclusive devotion he demands from his disciples. Over and over, Jesus calls people to himself - out of the church, the culture, the economy, and the family. ↗

— Michael Spencer

#jesus #spirituality #family

We stared at the odd garment and wondered what it was for. 'What is it?' asked Larry at length. 'It's a bathing costume, of course,' said Mother. 'What on earth did you think it was?' 'It looks like a badly skinned whale,' said Larry, peering at it closely. ↗

— Gerald Durrell

#humor #family

Consciously, she thought she had her feelings for him licked; subconsciously, every time she thought about him, it was as though someone stumbling around inside her head had kicked over a bucket of electric eels. ↗

— John Ramsey Miller

#family

I used to live with someone of the opposite sex. It’s called a sister, and I don’t have one.
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— Jarod Kintz

#relationships #sister #women #family