Family Quote by Maia Chance

“Everyone has a messed-up family to one extent or another but we all have an obligation to rise above it. Live in the present…

— Emily Giffin

“How utterly our past suffuses us. We live in all our days at once.”

— Hanif Kureishi

“Everyone else goes home for nostalgia, and happy memories. I end up feeling like I never fit in with the family as a child,…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“When your present self and your ideal self are in different time zones, figure out what’s keeping you apart.”

— Frank Sonnenberg

“The other problem with all this swinging through the vines of thought is that you are never where you are. You are always digging…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“When it was just you and your fight to live, the only thing that mattered was time. Time was the only thing reminding you…

— Rachael Wade

“Or maybe everyone feels this way-like they've failed or been failed. Families: letting each other down since the beginning of time.”

— Alexis Bass

“Time decides our fate, our journey. And when time changes, everything changes. Everything. Sometimes for worse, sometimes for better. And sometimes, for the best.”

— Savi Sharma

“But for someone like me, who moved into an entirely different world when still quite young, it’s as if a deep gap divides my…

— Minae Mizumura

“Everything and everyone seemed like it was part of a long-ago time—when I was young and free and living.”

— Jacqueline Woodson

“What I would like to do is use the time that is coming now to talk about some things that have come to mind.…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“It still is on the run, time that is. Sometimes it seems like everything’s changing; my whole world is rearranging. Everything’s different, and yet…

— Amanda Leigh