#ily

It's like they say about soldiers coming back from war. People all around you are dying. Really dying, Eric. You go in for a week's chemotherapy and you're in a ward with people who are really, actually dying, there and then and doing their best to come to terms with it. When the week's up, you go home and you see your family and your friends and everything's normal and familiar. It's too much. You think - one world can't possibly hold both these lives and you feel like you're going to go crazy when you realise the world is that big and it can fill with the most terrible things whenever it wants to. ↗

— Steven Hall

#chemotherapy #remission #sickness #family

I tell the kids that, even in a childhood marked by despair and deprivation, I knew that no matter what happened, I still had my family, or at least the remnants of a family ripped apart by divorce and then glued back together in various odd arrangements through a series of ill- advised remarriages. It was good to know I had a solid foundation. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#post #washington #family

Beatrice. We should think of our family. But. But we must also think of ourselves. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#caleb-prior #divergent #roth #family

I'll be here when you get back. ↗

— Ally Carter

#family #loyalty #waiting #family

You really are like him, your father." "I can't tell whether you think that's good or bad." "What does it matter? It's simply true. ↗

— Victoria Schwab

#honesty #family

Emotions are messy. ↗

— Ottilie Weber

#emotions #messy #family

Leah looked at her parents, lost in their own fantasies, and decided that the three of them were a pretty pathetic family - but she wasn't sure who was more pathetic: the dateless girl spending the night of the big dance by herself in her bedroom, or the parents who foolishly believed a boy would arrive on their doorstep with flowers, a limo, and a promise to rescue their daughter from her solitude. ↗

— J.M. Reep

#family #shyness #teenager #family

Archers stood together, no matter what. Not even frilly-smelling laundry could tear them apart. ↗

— Karen Witemeyer

#family

The house had a name. The Banana House. It was carved onto a piece of sandstone above the front door. It made no sense to anyone. ↗

— Hilary McKay

#funny-and-random #house #family

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair." Douglas MacArthur ↗

— Terri Marie

#chapter #children #family #magic #faith