#ily

If you live in each other's pockets long enough, you're related. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#family

You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you... ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#sisters #family

Fredo you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the family... ↗

— Mario Puzo

#family

The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#concern #fact #family #life #love

I'm a Cynster--I've been raised to acquire, defend, and protect. My family is the core of my existence--without a family, without children, I'd have nothing to protect, no reason to acquire. ↗

— Stephanie Laurens

#family

Kat looked down at her lemonade. 'Do you think he betrayed the love of his life...because of us?' 'She used the name Romani, Kat,' was Gabrielle's answer. 'And besides...' She let the words draw out. Her gaze went to the distance, and there was a sense of peace in the way she said, 'WE'RE the love of his life.' She raised her glass again. 'To family. ↗

— Ally Carter

#family

Sometimes I want to be human for you. ↗

— Sarah Rees Brennan

#humanity #love #nick-ryves #family

That evening, Dudley paraded around the living room for the family in his brand new uniform...As he looked at Dudley in his new knickerbockers, Uncle Vernon said gruffly that if was the proudest moment of his life. Aunt Petunia burst into tears and said she couldn't believe it was her Ickle Dudleykins, he looked so handsome and grown-up. Harry didn't trust himself to speak. He thought two of his ribs might already have cracked from trying not to laugh. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#family

Will is… difficult,” Jem said. “But family is difficult. If I didn’t think the Institute was the best place for you, Tessa, I wouldn’t say it was. And one can build one’s own family. I know you feel inhuman, and as if you were set apart, away from life and love, but…” His voice cracked a little, the first time Tessa had heard him sound unsure. He cleared his throat. “I promise you, the right man won’t care. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#family #jem-carstairs #love #family

You don't do that. You don't just leave your family. Sticking together... it's the only way to survive. ↗

— Kiera Cass

#family