Circumstances Quote by Christina Baker Kline

“I could never be with someone who didn’t understand how important my family is to me. When”

— Jenny Han

“Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents?”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“I loved my parents and wanted to make them proud of me - but no longer at the cost of my own happiness.”

— Rachel Hawthorne

“Maybe I was crazy to consider it, but I’d always hoped that if I were a good enough girl, if I did everything right,…

— Tahereh Mafi

“I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you’ll never…

— Mitch Albom

“I never wanted to find my birth parents - if one set of parents felt like a misfortune, two sets would be self-destructive... I…

— Jeanette Winterson

“I realized how much it must suck to be a parent. You devote everything to your kids, who just end up growing up and…

— Sara Taylor

“After that, nothing was the same. The very notion of my having a family turned vague, hard to credit, even weirdly jokey.”

— Michael Wyndham Thomas

“I didn't know that you could love and hate your parents totally separately and equally. But you can. And I do.”

— Arlaina Tibensky

“If I knew how a lot of my relationships would have turned out, I never would have gotten involved in them... And I would…

— L.A. Witt

“Some of the things I hated my parents for when I was younger are the same things I love my parents for now that…

— Steve Maraboli

“I never expected to be happy, to have a sense of belonging somewhere. I didn't grow up with a sense that this was possible…

— Camilla Gibb