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My father hired you to protect me," Ahmed said, "not to go off chasing men." Grandma leaned forward, keeping her eye on the Taurus. "We think this guy killed Fred." "Who's Fred?" "My uncle," I told him. "He's married to Mabel." "Ah so you're avenging a murder in the family. This is a good thing. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#family

I could stand on my head and flick the bean right there at the dinner table and my mom would be all, "Honey, Christmas is family time, we should be together" and make me finish in front of everyone. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#family

[Orange] is one of God's favorite colors--- He stuck it right there between red and yellow as the second color in the rainbow. He decorates entire forests with shades of orange every autumn. It shows up in sunrises at the start of the day, sunsets at the end of the day, and in the glow of the moon at the right time of night. ↗

— Reggie Joiner

#god #family

The List. The love spell... A man with a sense of loyalty. A man with a sense of family. A man who is a good lover. A man who can be my friend. A man who can challenge me. A man I can confess my secrets to. A man I can trust. A man with confidence. A man with an open heart. A man who will fight for me. A man who can love me exactly as I am. ↗

— Jennifer Probst

#family

I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#self-knowledge #family

I'd felt obligated to get Ian a Christmas present. A chunk of coal sat in a brightly wrapped box under the tree, his name written in big bold letters on the front of it. Ian might be family, but he still had been a very naughty boy this year. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#ian #family

You dumb-ass ape, get your hand off me. What—are you the first in your family to be born without a tail? ↗

— Cherise Sinclair

#erotica #make-me-sir #family

We're not meant to separate sex from love; there's a reason why euphoria occurs in both situations. Sex and love nourish each other. You can argue it's humanity's way of establishing family groups and guaranteeing creation of the next generation; but the simple fact remains: the more often two people engage in sex, the more likely it is that one of them will fall in love. ↗

— Megan Hart

#sex-wisdom #family

As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated into myths of your own difference, assumptions of your own superiority. And you acted out these beliefs on the stage of the world, so that the entire planet was rocked by the repercussions of your tantrums, not least my family, now facing war thousands of miles away. ↗

— Mohsin Hamid

#family

Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle] ↗

— Aristotle

#family