One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world!
You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.
The boy needs a family around him while he rebuilds.
In the evening a strange thing happened: the twenty families became one family, the Children were the children of all. The loss of home became one loss, and the golden time in the West was one dream. And it might be that a sick child threw despair into the hearts of twenty families, of a hundred people; that a birth there in a tent kept a hundred people quiet and awestruck trough the night and filled a hundred people with the birth-joy in the morning...
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
[Winnie] began to feel quite cheerful. She had been kidnapped, but nothing bad had happened, and now it was almost over. Now, remembering the visits of the night before, she smiled – and found that she loved them, this most peculiar family.
I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching – they are your family.
The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.
Hermes gazed up at the stars. 'My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the Internet.'
Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.