Contemporary-romance Quote by Elizabeth Morgan

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

— Stacy Claflin

“I really wanted to show that it wasn’t all bad in my family. I tried so hard to think of happy times we all…

— Alan Cumming

“individual family. It showed an infant’s face blown up so big it was blurry.”

— Lisa See

“What was with this family, that all the sons were so freaking handsome it hurt to look at them”

— Julie Kagawa

“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

“And you asked why people always expected you to smile in photographs. And I told you it was because they hoped that in the…

— pleasefindthis

“All smiles for the camera are fake.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It always gave me a peculiar feeling to catch a glimpse of my parents' lives before I was born.”

— Robert Drewe

“I realized in the silence that followed that I hadn't spoken a single word -- and even though I laughed with them, it felt…

— John Green

“Mom rubbed the back of my neck and we kept walking, away from the kids and the colors and the high-pitched, happy voices. Seeing…

— Amy Sargent Swank

“the ridiculous impression of being “one of the family.”

— Albert Camus

“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