Family Quote by Lucy Pasha-Robinson

She was the archetypal selfless mother: living only for her children, sheltering them from the consequences of their actions - and in the end…

— Marcia Muller

“During her life Veronika had noticed that a lot of people she knew would talk about the horrors in other people’s lives as if…

— Paulo Coelho

“She was living in bad sociery; and, imaginary though it was, its influence affected her, for she was feeding heart and fancy on dangerous…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Next she lost her belief in the sincerity of those about her. She secretly refused to believe that anyone (herself excepted) loved anyone. All…

— Thornton Wilder

“She was emotionally retarded having no sense of humour, cold and no people skills. She was like her mother was obsessed by appearances and…

— Annette J Dunlea

“The only thing worse than having a family, I discovered, is not having a family. My rejection of bourgeois virtues as mean-spirited and antithetical…

— Theodore Dalrymple

“she was the kind of woman who only gave herself away in small doses, leaving men wandering like little children at all that she…

— Christopher Poindexter

“There had been whispers that her family was suffering financially--suffering, as if lack of money was a wound. Which it was, the worst kind.”

— Anton DiSclafani

“It was one thing to talk about being by yourself, doing important things, but quite another when the opportunity arose. The characters in the…

— Natalie Babbitt

“She saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of…

— Thornton Wilder

“They were not unfortunate girls who, as outcasts or in the belief that they were cast out by society, grieved wholesomely and intensely and,…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“She was thinking about the way she’d always taken for granted that the world had certain people in it, either central to her days…

— Emily St. John Mandel