#or

To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#family #humor #family

You take care of family first, friends second, and neighbors when you can. ↗

— Janice Hardy

#friends #neigbors #family

Each of us has a family tree full of stories inside of us, Dirk thought. Each of us has a story blossoming out of us. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#stories #family

I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pilllow. ↗

— Francisco X. Alarcón

#family #family

There are no real Californians. There are only people who live there and people who don't. ↗

— Laura Kalpakian

#family

Lifes a bitch and then you keep on fucking living." Gonko The Clown The Pilo Family Circus ↗

— Will Elliott

#family

It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#fairies #hero-worship #john-f-kennedy #kennedy-family #politics

I forced myself to stop thinking about it. I went to the room in my brain where all my thoughts about Adam lived and disconnected the electricity and boarded up all the doors and windows, so nothing could get out. Obviously it was very unsightly. There were bound to be complaints from the neighboring thoughts. But I had no choice. ↗

— Marian Keyes

#thoughts #family

He lied all the time even when there was no need to lie [...] He needed a _history_, a sense of self. [Burnside on his father, p. 22] ↗

— John Burnside

#father #history #lies #family

The difference between black and white is Grace!" EL ↗

— Evinda Lepins

#grace #forgiveness