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> [Families are like countries. They have their own language and jokes and secrets and assumptions about the right and wrong ways of doing things, and some of that always shows in the children, the way something of Germany or Australia…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/families-are-like-countries-they-have-their-own-language-and-jokes/)

[Roland Merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

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## More by Roland Merullo

> [The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disadvantage is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/the-number-of-poor-and-poorly-prepared-students-who-succeed-in/)

[Roland Merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

> [The past shouts at you, the ugly words or actions echo down across the years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/the-past-shouts-at-you-the-ugly-words-or-actions-echo-down-across-the/)

[Roland Merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

> [“All-American and proud of it. Too rich and soft and flawed to make any spiritual mark on anyone other than my own dog and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/all-american-and-proud-of-it-too-rich-and-soft-and-flawed-to-make-any/)

[Roland Merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

> [“I thought I heard a cow mooing in Seese's back yard. Later on, later down the road, as they say, I would learn that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/i-thought-i-heard-a-cow-mooing-in-seese-s-back-yard-later-on-later/)

[Roland Merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

> [“There are some kinds of sorrow that words can never reach, certain kinds of things you can never hold in the box of your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/there-are-some-kinds-of-sorrow-that-words-can-never-reach-certain/)

[Roland Merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

> [“You keep telling yourself it will be different. Year after year, time after time, you keep telling yourself things might change. It's what makes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/you-keep-telling-yourself-it-will-be-different-year-after-year-time/)

[Roland Merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

> [“...if we somehow find the courage to go directly into the discomfort - even the discomfort of illness, pain, old age, and death -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/if-we-somehow-find-the-courage-to-go-directly-into-the-discomfort/)

[Roland Merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

> [“some point you had to risk the ridicule of the mob, of your own internalized voices, and try to see clearly what had been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/some-point-you-had-to-risk-the-ridicule-of-the-mob-of-your-own/)

[Roland Merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

> [“Isn't mockery the province of the insecure?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/isn-t-mockery-the-province-of-the-insecure/)

[roland merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

> [“Simply by being your absolute, most genuine self in every interaction of every hour, you provide a great and rare service on this earth.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/simply-by-being-your-absolute-most-genuine-self-in-every-interaction/)

[Roland Merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

> [“You ask a certain question again and again, in a sincere fashion, and the answer appears. But, in my experience, at least, that answer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/you-ask-a-certain-question-again-and-again-in-a-sincere-fashion-and/)

[Roland Merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

> [“I’m not great at talking to people. I have all these thoughts bunching up inside my head and then they come out like a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/i-m-not-great-at-talking-to-people-i-have-all-these-thoughts-bunching/)

[Roland Merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

> [I felt I was drawing close to that age, that place in life, where you realize one day what you'd told yourself was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/i-felt-i-was-drawing-close-to-that-age-that-place-in-life-where-you/)

[Roland Merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

> [“Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others, or for soaking in self-pity, or for a sharp anger that knifes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/some-people-use-their-own-hurt-as-an-excuse-for-hurting-others-or-for/)

[Roland Merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

> [“There was a small glass vase between us, three gladioli in a few ounces of water. One of the gladioli had dropped a petal-…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/there-was-a-small-glass-vase-between-us-three-gladioli-in-a-few/)

[Roland Merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

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