Family Quote by Bridget Asher

“I was once a daughter. We all were—Sam, Claire, me. We just didn’t know that it wasn’t forever, that we were only daughters for…

— Jennifer Handford

“We gave each other the childhoods we had lost.”

— Akiah Watts

“But in the end, there were only two boys that really mattered. Matt and Sam.”

— Sarah Ockler

“Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. Anthony Brandt”

— Les Parrott III

“One of the children lived.”

— Michael J. Sullivan

“We were all the same. Kids from nowhere going nowhere. He always saw a light through the darkness. Knew the cracks let that light…

— Dito Montiel

“Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than…

— Barack Obama

“They were not a family anymore. They were strangers. Tied together by chains, but they had rusted, and there was no hope for them…

— Callie Hunter

“We were all just children once.”

— Leigh Bardugo

“One of the great solaces of my life is that I no longer need to wonder whether I’ll have children.”

— Sarah Manguso

“If only we could have met each other sooner. We had led such poor and fragile lives, each alone.”

— Kyung-sook Shin

“But it’s also—we had a strange family growing up. Things weren’t always easy. For us. For others. Mistakes were made. Bad things happened. But…

— T.J. Klune