Family Quote by Christina Baker Kline

There is a skeleton in every house.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Love had bones to it. Solid, rattling things bent on cluttering you up long after the soft parts melted into the ether. You had…

— Cara McKenna

“One of the most common uses of early stone tools was to crack open bones in order to get to the marrow. Some researchers…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I bleed my bones, their marrow to bestowUpon that God who knows what I would know.

— Theodore Roethke

“Just as woodpeckers specialise in extracting insects from the trunks of trees, the first humans specialised in extracting marrow from bones. Why marrow? Well,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The thin red jellies within you or within me, the bones and the marrow in the bones, The exquisite realization of health; O I…

— Walt Whitman

If I were a young man With my bones full of marrow, Oh, if I were a bold young man Straight as an arrow,…

— Robert Graves

“Something inexorable seeds itself in the place of your origin. You can never escape the bonds of family history, no matter how far you…

— Christina Baker Kline

I think at the start of writing it was less intense topics, and then once I broke the seal I was more comfortable writing…

— Luke Hemmings

“it was weird. Would you believe it if some supermodel called you up and told you she was your sister?’ Strike thought of his…

— Robert Galbraith

I think that one of the ways that Americans will come to want to look at history is by looking at their own families'…

— Adele Logan Alexander

A writer represents his family history. My grandfather was a senator and my father served in the Roosevelt administration. In other words, I grew…

— Gore Vidal