I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.

Papa was right, after all. A ship's crew was like a family, and together we had done what we never could have managed alone.

If there's a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who's trapped underground, I don't know it.

Gran follows recipes by looking at picture—to the eye, delicious; to the tongue, boiled socks. Makes you wanna cry really.

Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.

If minutes were kept of a family gathering they would show that Members not Present and Subjects Discussed were one and the same

Neighbours are given to us on the same basis as we are given our families. There is no element of choice involved - none at all.

My mother has a gap betweenher two front teeth. So does Daddy Gunnar.Each child in this family has the same spaceconnecting us.

I found out who my real dad is on Facebook. I also found out who he isn’t. He isn’t the man I thought he isn’t.

I'm tired of being set upon by crazed Christians one minute and unbridled libertines the next. Girls, I'm going camping.

You don't love Buck. If you did, you'd have four kids by now. Wouldn't you? Now wouldn't you? A woman like you...

When you were in the hospital, dying, I called your mom. I didn’t tell her you were gravely ill, but we did have phone sex.

The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house and all things in common

We return to the lives of those who have gone before us, a perplexing mobius strip, until we come home, eventually, to ourselves.

Dia adek yang paling gue sayang, yang kalau misalnya gue denger petir gede aja akan gue telepon buat nanya apa dia baik-baik aja.