[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)

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

At the end of the day, that's what a family is - a group of different people who accept each other.

I have family all over. And when they’re all over, I leave the house and go anywhere else.


The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family

They say blood is thicker than water, but I say ice, can be more solid than blood, when times get cold.

Family's not family unless it's totally messing you up. I'm pretty sure that's the point

Going to church is a beautiful act of humility. You are saying to the world, "I need God and His family.

Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow.

When a new baby is expected mother has 9 months to prepare the family and the kitchen for her departure!

It made a big difference in my life to grow up with a dad who wasn't afraid of how great my mom was.

...it is love, imperfect and unordered, that keeps them apart, even as it holds them somehow together...

Crows pooping in your neighbor's roof is not good news; one day they will be pooping in your roof too

When he picked out the [gravesite] plot, my father had joked that he was moving, at last, to the suburbs.

I never knew my father. I saw him at a party once, but he never walked over and introduced himself to me.