Family Quote by Peter Taylor

“My own view of Father was not nearly so high-flown or complicated. For me he was flesh and blood and until the day I…

— Peter Taylor

“As the Mississippi snaked and their old home slipped further away, perhaps Samuel had finally left the curse behind.”

— Andrew Galasetti

“He’d always loved this land, loved how his family had tamed it. It was as much a part of him as his blood. Being…

— Leah Braemel

“Wasn’t it true, then, that everything in his life from that point on had been a succession of things he hadn’t really wanted to…

— Richard Yates

“His wives had discovered early on what a poor or frightening prospect of a father he presented and they had protected themselves and got…

— Ian McEwan

“You can never escape the bonds of family history, no matter how far you travel. And the skeleton of a house can carry in…

— Christina Baker Kline

“cold which threw me back a little.” As the weather grew warmer, she hoped to come home but was uncertain when they might be…

— Jon Meacham

“In so many ways, his family's life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another...They were things for which it…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“No doubt Richard's father, like my mother, had once held his infant son in his arms, looked into the eyes of his child's mother,…

— Joyce Maynard

“But in that one little window of time, many lasting decisions were made. First, any love for my father that might have remained either…

— Douglas Coupland

“As it was, only a few African porters loitered nearby, preparing to carry off whatever they’d come to collect. They had little interest in…

— Vered Ehsani

“I knew full well that Lane considered himself more family than servant to my uncle, and that my uncle felt the same; the only…

— Sharon Cameron