Family Quote by Christopher Brookmyre

“For while I destroyed his hopes, I did not satisfy my own desires. They were for ever ardent and craving; still I desired love…

— Mary Shelley

“Sometimes family was the cruelest form of love there was, for no one could hurt you more than the people who created you. Forcing”

— S.C. Stephens

“There were no scruples, no feelings of respect or loyal affection that would stop us from making up our minds by the pure light…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“But my family I had always had a duty to love, no matter how they had wronged me.”

— Rosamund Hodge

“The burning ambition of my life was to marry her one day. The consuming worry of my life was to whether she would agree.”

— Vikas Swarup

“There was something about total loyalty, uncritical devotion, endless patience, perpetual forgiveness and the general inability to believe that a loved one could ever…

— Joanne Harris

“And what if excess of love Bewildered them till they died?”

— William Butler Yeats

“My own family were far from perfect, yet I thanked the Lord that I had them, even if they did sometimes make me want…

— Wade Chris

“Love could not induce us to take on the burden of propagating the species without promising us the greatest happiness we could imagine.”

— Alain de Botton

“Love. It was such a strange concept. It was something that should be everlasting, something that could wipe out any disagreement or hurt or…

— C.M. Stunich

“Love required sacrifice and making hard choices and doing things that were bigger than just you. It wasn't something you asked for, or could…

— Kimberly Derting

“That was above all what he wanted to hear. Not merely the love of one person but the animal instinct, the simple undifferentiated desire.…

— George Orwell