Family Quote by Maile Meloy

“Was there anything quite so painful, so fraught with the possibilities of hurt, as gift giving within a family?”

— Paul Russell

“That’s how she is. She’d endure anything for family because having us home, she always said, meant more to her than all of the…

— Jenny Hale

“We wanted a family so bad, all of us. And we just grabbed each another and made us one. Simple as that.”

— Cynthia Rylant

“They had ganged up on her, in the claustrophobic, loving way of families, and she wanted no more of it.”

— Gregory Maguire

“For their was no finer family than the one you had chosen yourself.”

— M.A. Kuzniar

“Family. If one member wasn't being a pain in the ass, another one would be guaranteed to fill the slot”

— Jeaniene Frost

“Yes, she had held her family together, but at what cost to herself.”

— Lisa See

“As the years progressed, he'd come to terms with the fact that he wasn't meant to be part of a loving family.”

— Jill Kemerer

“I knew what I was doing. I was helping a family who needed a mother for a few moments. And I was a mother…

— Christine Zolendz

“She hadn’t ever wanted children and yet she had. She had and she did”

— Maggie O'Farrell

“She spoke about her family she'd lost. She spoke about her secret hopes and fears and longings. She had love to give, and no…

— Katherine Applegate

“My family had a lot of things, just not the things that mattered…”

— Rick Riordan