Family Quote by Anne Tyler Download Open image ““Sometimes she felt like a tiny gnat, whirring around her family’s edges”” — Anne Tyler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Family
“She had lived long enough to learn that families didn’t dissolve or reconfigure neatly, but left debris lying everywhere, and it was human debris.… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
“Poor Almafae hadn't been quite right since the time she'd stuck her head in a gnat ball at the age of two.” — Joanna Jordan Copy Share Image
“Kate made a concerted effort not to drift into mommy terrain when she was with them, though she sometimes slipped and saw their eyes… — Nichole Bernier Copy Share Image
“But she missed simple things, parents' birthdays, a rug underfoot, nights when she didn't have to sleep in a zipped bag. She began to… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“She would never understand her sister. Her sister was like the weather, no, she was worse than the weather. She was like an earthquake… — Victoria Kahler Copy Share Image
“She felt a lump form in her throat, and she swallowed hard. She wouldn't have this-the swollen ankles and pink cheeks and the feel… — Sarah Pekkanen Copy Share Image
“She felt less than tiny. She felt like a negative presence; a scratch of an entity on the skin of a planetary body. The” — Anne Charnock Copy Share Image
“Her brother has a disease, an illness with the shape and sound of a snake. It slithers through the branches of our family tree.… — Nathan Filer Copy Share Image
“Her teenage daughter was sprouting like a tree, blooming every day into another variation of who she would someday become. Moods twisted her up… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“She gave another eye roll and glided away. My admiration for my sister grew. One thing to have children...another to keep them when they… — Kristan Higgins Copy Share Image
“There was something that charmed her in the fact that her brother, the one true worldling in the whole tribe of Boughtons, seemed to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“You're a big sister?' I was shocked. She seemed so good-natured and compassionate.” — Natalie Standiford Copy Share Image
None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. -… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“You wake in the morning, you’re feeling fine, but all at once you think, “Something’s not right. Something’s off somewhere; what is it?” And… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“...that was Julian for you: reckless. A dashing sailor, a speedy driver, a frequenter of single bars, he was the kind of man who… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“Disaster followed disaster... the hero stuck in there, though. Macon had long ago noticed that all adventure movies had the same moral: Perseverance pays.… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“Justine hated pantsuits. Whenever she saw one, she had an urge to tell the owner some scandalous fortune, loudly enough to be heard everywhere:… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“ever day Maureen is Selfish To her friend and Family One she get mad at her friend and family and She need to Grad… — Maureen Andeson Copy Share Image
Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales where walking was part of the… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
“So Jace is my actual family," Kit said. "But I can't go live with him, because him and his hot girlfriend are going off… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away. — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
“She knew how to play him so very well. He slipped his hand around hers. "Friends," he repeated roughly. Her smile was bright enough… — Kathryn Smith Copy Share Image
As a family, we all loved the Flyers. To me, rooting for the Flyers were how I bonded with my dad especially. — Adam F. Goldberg Copy Share Image
The people have always been family to me here in Las Vegas. The people have always been very, very kind to me, and it's… — Randall Cunningham Copy Share Image
