Family Quote by Karen Joy Fowler

“This little girl's grown up by now," she said. Almost. Not quite. I wish you all a long and happy life.”

— Alice Sebold

“I realized that in some unspoken, still tentative way, she and I were already becoming a family.”

— Barack Obama

“naturally. “Yes. I guess that does sound right. Does that seem like a crazy thing to say?” But of course it helped that he…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“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

“Well we want to know... If you want to become part of the family." "... Kinda thought I already was.”

— Michael Oher

“It seems to her that your family is at once utterly familiar and entirely unknown.”

— Penelope Lively

“Did anybody ever tell you that you weren't normal?' 'Is that something I should aspire to?”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“I suddenly understood that sometimes you need each other even when you want to be independent. Family is a tricky thing to navigate, but…

— Nancy CoCo

“As soon as she says this, I realize she is just like everyone else, and wish I was back at home so that all…

— Claire Keegan

“Just remember, family isn't perfect. It's just perfectly ours.”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“I know, not what you were expecting am I? Everybody says that. Including my own family.”

— Rachel Caine

“If you saw everyone you encountered as family, and every experience you had as valuable…just how might your life be different?”

— Noah James Hittner