#ily

You hurt her by starving yourself, you hurt her with your lies, and by fighting everybody who tries to help you. Emma can only sleep a couple of hours a night now. She's haunted by nightmares of monsters that eat our whole family. They eat us slowly, she says, so we can feel their sharp teeth. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#family

What can we do?" Mom asked again. I shrugged. But she kept asking, as if there were something she could do, until I just kind of crawled across the couch into her lap and my dad came over and held my legs really tight and I wrapped my arms all the way around my mom's middle and they held on to me for hours while the tide rolled in. ↗

— John Green

#family #hazel #sadness #family

Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey. ↗

— Jack Layton

#family #journey #life #love #family

Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#family

Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#family #mother #family

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