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The Scottish sun, shocked by having its usual cloudy underpinnings stripped away, shone feverishly, embarrassed by its nakedness. ↗

— Stuart Haddon

#history #scotland #short-story #the-bullet-in-the-box #family

Get down,' Bunty says grimly. 'Mummy's thinking.' (Although what Mummy's actually doing is wondering what it would be like if her entire family was wiped out and she could start again.) ↗

— Kate Atkinson

#family

You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him," said Miss Hillyard. "It didn't pay, did it? Say he sacrificed his professional honour for the women and children we hear so much about -- but in the end it left him worse of." But that," said Peter, "was only because he committed the extra sin of being found out. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#dishonesty #falsification #family #financial-distress #honor

We wanted a family so bad, all of us. And we just grabbed each another and made us one. Simple as that. ↗

— Cynthia Rylant

#love #need #family

The freeing of an individual, as he grows up, from the authority of his parents is one of the most necessary though one of the most painful results brought about by the course of his development. It is quite essential that that liberation should occur and it may be presumed that it has been to some extent achieved by everyone who has reached a normal state. Indeed, the whole progress of society rests upon the opposition between successive generations. On the other hand, there is a class of neurotics whose condition is recognizably determined by their having failed in this task. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#family

Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness. ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#evil #suffering #nature

Ruly learned how to drown the summer his family left Lomaland for good. ↗

— Richard Yañez

#family

mad at me. For Dad, parenting has become just like shooting one of his stupid insurance ads-some makeup to cover the blemishes, a flashy smile, and wham! He's got himself a regular picture-perfect family. ↗

— Holly Schindler

#family

How reassuring." - Queen Elizabeth, when told during a walking tour of Scotland that she looks like the Queen ↗

— Kate Petrella

#family

A family of zombies just moved in next door. Their cooking smells terrible! ↗

— Roger Eschbacher

#family