Family Quote by Allison Winn Scotch

“I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years I spent…

— Nicole Krauss

“Well, my dear father, in the shipwreck of life--for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes--I throw all my useless baggage in the…

— Alexandre Dumas, père

“My perception of my life crashed from high tragedy to juvenile self-pity in a matter of moments.”

— Robin Hobb

“Drifting away from one’s culture leaves one stranded in the middle of nowhere till the time his suffocation strangles him.”

— Q. M. Sidd

“My demise resulted from a terror-one of my own creation.I was capable of conjuring up the most horrifying feelings of bone chilling fear,hopelessness,and guilt.”

— Lisa-Scarlett Cruji

“There I sat, in the wreckage of my apartment, in the wreckage of my life – no love, no prospects, a gnawing sense of…

— William Lashner

“Sometimes when your world crashes down from above and you think there's no way to claw yourself out of the rubble of your life,…

— Olivia Cunning

“Your mom is like the Titanic: if you stay with the ship, you'll go down too. Those people who clung to the boat ultimately…

— Dina Silver

“I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years I spent…

— Nicole Krauss

“During that time, the world seemed completely unforgiving. I was a single father at age twenty-six, divorced after a meaningless marriage that had lasted…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“Life was too damn tough on its own terms to go depriving yourself further.”

— Nick Cutter

“... when it seemed at every turn that the winds of fate had blown our lives afoul, financially, emotionally, or idealistically. Look at all…

— Jonathan Evison