“In those days food was never just sustenance; the very act of cooking knit our disparate lives together.” — Sasha Martin Copy Share Image
“Sophie clutched Grant tighter. 'I don’t know what screwed-up messages from your family are floating around in your head right now, but… — Jennifer Lane Copy Share Image
“I matter to my children. My children depend on me for their basic needs. My children need my love and nurturance. My… — Holli Kenley Copy Share Image
Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Substitute the word gay for straight and she's the exact same pain in the neck kid sister she was before she told… — Amy Kaufman Burk Copy Share Image
“Family we cannot always choose, but it sure is fun to try and make them laugh during dinners. Especially when they are… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
“Family isn't blood," she said bitterly, continuing to back away. "Family is who loves you, who takes care of you.” — Bruce Coville Copy Share Image
“Every moment of our lives we make choices. Most we don’t even know we’re making, they’re so dull or routine or automatic.… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
The commandment to honor our parents echoes the sacred spirit of family relationships in which-at their best-we have sublime expressions of heavenly… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
“It may be that psychologists are off-base in their preoccupation with children’s need to feel that their father or some other parent… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“He paused leaning over to lay his lips on hers, “It’s time to feel again. Let me save you from yourself. You… — Ella Frank Copy Share Image
“Ian, man, I didna tell ye because I didna wish to lose you too. My brother was gone, and my father. I… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“It was a sickening, humbling, maddeningly powerless sensation this watching them and waiting for them to come to him. For the time… — Genevieve Dewey Copy Share Image
“When I was about nine, my siblings and I fell out of our moving van at an intersection. My dad didn’t notice… — Dina Kucera Copy Share Image
“My brother trolled recovery and support groups, searching for women with dependency issues, the way I frequented bookstores with the hope of… — Richard J. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness won’t ensure you’ll win an argument with your sister. Mindfulness won’t enable you to bypass your feelings of anger or hurt… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives. The vision of your true… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
“Your Barney?” Cole’s eyebrows shot up. “Yours?” “He’s mine all right!” Claire replied. “Everyone in this family belongs to everyone else –… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
I think we are defined as human beings through our families, no matter what kind of family - through our relationships with… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
“But you made it for Dotty. You should keep it in the family,' I said. Henry took my hands in his and… — Louise Miller Copy Share Image
“Every family has one living patriarch or matriarch, the final arbiter and repository of ancient family history, and Nicole's Aunt Patti was… — Liz Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“My sister and I are so close that we finish each other’s sentences and often wonder who’s memories belong to whom.” — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“When you love someone, show them in words AND deeds. To hear you're loved is nice but to feel loved is incredible.” — Nina Guilbeau Copy Share Image
“Energetic cords are unconscious - often sentimental or compulsive - emotional ties to past and present relationships, pre-conditioned by our wounds. They… — Avril Carruthers Copy Share Image
“A dam doesn't try to reason with the water. Its main purpose is to hold it still for a while. When I… — Spuds Crawford Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, in the stillness of my room, my mom’s voice came to me, repeating things she’d said for months. Like, “My skin… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
People are drawn to watching things that are dramatic. And the tighter a relationship is, the more dramatic it can be. That's… — Linda Cardellini Copy Share Image
“Just because I didn't have a spouse to help and enjoy those activities with didn't mean they couldn't happen. Just because my… — emma johnson Copy Share Image
“I could feel the hard part of Mom very strongly that time. It was like a stone in her that grew bigger… — Kaimana Wolff Copy Share Image
“As soon as the door closed, Uncle Enzo looked around. "I say he needs money." Uncle Nico shook his head. "He's been… — Ashleigh Stevens Copy Share Image
Women's childhood relationships with their fathers are important to them all their lives. Regardless of age or status, women who seem clearest… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
“Look at your own relationships. Are you more interested in telling someone something, or are you more interested in deeply listening to… — Barry Vissell Copy Share Image
“I'm as vulnerable as anybody to the toxicity of the American nuclear family. But I wouldn't call it disease or moral failure… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
“Many parents have experienced the fact that kids don’t seem to honor their parents the way that previous generations of children did.… — Fiona Dimas-Herd Copy Share Image
“I was so done with looking at life through the eyes of beer-drinking cheese-heads. I wanted to go on that mission trip… — Holly Michael Copy Share Image
“Family… that was my older sister Tiffany as well. My emotional spectrum for her covered everything from “my dearest sister, foundation of… — Hasimir Fenrig Copy Share Image
In its effect on family relationships, in its facilitation of parental withdrawal from an active role in the socialization of their children,… — Marie Winn Copy Share Image
“A man's heart does not love like a woman's, Lorelei. Logren would lay down and die if he thought his death would… — Jennifer Melzer Copy Share Image
It's about loving and letting go. I think it's about family and those relationships that are incredibly joyous and incredibly intense and… — Toni Collette Copy Share Image
“When a woman once asked Joe how he could come from such a magnificent home and such a good family and still… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
