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It may be that psychologists are off-base in their preoccupation with children’s need to feel that their father or some other parent loves them. It also seems valid to consider the child’s desire to feel that a parent actually likes them, as love itself is so automatic and preprogrammed in a parent that it isn’t a very good test of whatever it is that the typical child feels so anxious to pass the test of ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#family

Uma relação de duas pessoas converteu-se numa de três, numa coisa mais triangular. Só ma relação que consegue formar um polígono consegue sobreviver, pensava Borja. Quando assenta em dois pontos, não resiste ao tempo, é um segmento de recta muito frágil. É um pontinho a olhar para outro pontinho, não tem a solidez do triângulo e, muito menos, da circunferência. Parte-se como um palito. ↗

— Afonso Cruz

#family

Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it’s a step rarely taken by those in family conflict. ↗

— Erwin W. Lutzer

#reconciliation #family

When you're a kid, if you watch 'The Jeffersons' with your family at seven o'clock, it seems like a natural phenomenon, like the sun setting. The universe is a strange, strange place when all of a sudden you can't use your glass with the Bionic Woman on it any more. ↗

— Heather O'Neill

#routine #family

The Revolution of 1848 found all the Rougons on the lookout, frustrated by their bad luck, and ready to use any means necessary to advance their cause. They were a family of bandits lying in wait, ready to plunder and steal. ↗

— Émile Zola

#rougon #family

He (God) never promises that our families will be safe. Not in the way we think. He does promise his presence, though. ↗

— Emily P. Freeman

#god #trials #family

A large battalion of my thoughts was marching determinedly on its way to Annoyance but it was distracted and took a wrong turn at Adam and found, to its surprise, that it had ended up in the entirely different destination of Dreamy Contentment. ↗

— Marian Keyes

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Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole. ↗

— Diane Setterfield

#life #family

You've always had me.. and my heart. My soul. Everything. I wish it hasn't taken this long for me to man up. That family of mine..nearly killed me. And not just thanks to that Honor Guard of theirs. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#qhuinn-and-blay #family

this was an outstanding family subject in our real life. ↗

— Rohinton Mistry

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