Appearance Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

“It is difficult when reading the description of certain fictional characters not at the same time to imagine the real-life acquaintances who they most…

— Alain de Botton

“In my family strange is relative.”

— Kate Rockland

“People sometimes speak in code, often without realizing they are doing so, as much a mystery to themselves as others.”

— Dean Koontz

“Someone isn’t your family simply because they contributed to your DNA. Family is how you act.”

— Lauren Dane

“Everything looks so much alike that you wonder how people got the idea of inventing names, to make distinctions.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Family is not just about who you appear to belong to, or what it says on your birth certificate, or who you look like,…

— Marina Chapman

“And while the shape of my family might not match other families - or even what I imagined it should be - some pretty…

— K.A. Barson

“My parents and sister looked like a picture-perfect family straight from a magazine. Without me.”

— Stacy Claflin

Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.

— Malachy McCourt

“There're times when strangers are like family, and family are like strangers”

— Hlovate

“When it came to your own family, it was hard to remember how weird they were.”

— Ann Brashares

“My characters are the family I would have if I could choose them myself.”

— Julie Thomas