My Family Quotes

Forgive me, my sons. I've been defeated by this despicable idiot. This is as far as I go.I leave everything to you.You have my gratitude. Farewell, my sons.

Perhaps that's a smile on Delia's face-but Delia's half skull turns every expression into a leer. She says, "Your uncle had a talent, kid. He made families wherever he went.

I stared, like always. A tree in the Petrified Forest. I looked down at my hands and feet and ordered them to move, only they wouldn’t.

I was young--so young--naive, isolated in a small world of safety and comfort too soon shattered by a phone call.

As the middle child of the Laurel Canyon Adams Family, Whit was surprisingly chill on the subject of ampire-vays.

A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs

I like these games we play, the ones that involve our heads and our hearts ~ Page 212

Maybe that's what living in America does to you: it spreads you into far distances until you're just little bits rolling apart.

It is no wonder that Satan hates the family and has hurled his venom against it in the form of Communism.

KEEP YOUR DREAMS ALIVE. KEEP YOURSELF ALIVE. Don’t just exist. Live. Thrive. Love. Share. Care. DARE!!

Sometimes I feel like a normal person. Sometimes I forget I’m on parole, that I’m not really free.

I was struck by the image of Daddy still dressed in that same plaid shirt and undershirt with the bloodstains below the neck, the one I had first seen him wearing in the jail the previous day.

I believe in family values and following your dreams.

There is nothing more pathetically sad than a parent who teaches a child not to hit by spanking them. Well, that, and adults who think hitting someone will solve a problem.

We're STARDUST! Thanks to those initial stars who sacrificed their precious lives for us!

I have scars. No one alive today doesn't. But Alex's scars have to be much deeper than mine.

When Bill Burke asked my mother out, she experienced the unluckiest day of her life. Diana (to become my high school sweetheart-and wife) agreeing to go out with me was the luckiest day of my life.

Granted, not all uneducated women are prostitutes, and, not all prostitutes are uneducated. However, where building a family is employment, an uneducated woman's womb is her diploma.

I was sick of the body count that existed around my family. It seemed statistically that eventually the body count would include my family.

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mindmost of our colors are amazingly the same.

Our parts now -- which perforce we must play -- are not father and daughter, but one old Abhorsen, making way for the new. But behind this, there is always my love.

I shake my head. "Remember, Mother. There are no mistakes." She smiles through her tears, leaning in to kiss my cheek "No mistakes, my angel.

I have a good life, I remind myself. There are plenty of people who love me. They're just not around at the moment.

Most people made comments on how I was the strongest woman they knew.That was before the title wave of disaster hit my charmed life.

Mourn with those are sorrowful.Be happy with those who are joyful.

And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we’d meet there again.

You can never please everybody, don't even try.

Don't read their rubbish... Read mine ☺️

You cannot go poking skeletons in the closet without making maggots wriggle." - Springfield Road

Everyone has a colorful life. You just have to get out your crayons.

I Have Fought the Good Fight and Won

The primary purpose of a home is to reflect and to distribute the love of Christ. Anything that usurps that is idolatrous.

Maybe she'd never really known her mother at all. And if you couldn't know the person whose body was your first home, then who could you ever know?

Is she a friend of yours?”“No, ” Diana said flatly. “She’s my mother.

Controlling others is the cornerstone of dysfunctional families.

Sometimes we control our family members because we idolize and idealize our perfect plan over the journey that God has laid out for them. (p. 56)

I don't know what's worse, being ignored or stared at.

Everything's temporary...until it's not.

Smoke rose from the barrel of the gun like a serpent crawling up from its wicker basket

California has legislatively barred alimony payments to a dependent spouse who has attempted to murder the supporting spouse. Cal. Fam. Code § 4324.

In the school of success, information is the greatest asset. The more you read, the more you discover, the more you discover, the more you recover and the better your life become.

A child that’s being abused by its parents doesn’t stop loving its parents, it stops loving itself.

I came to this house for safety. They came because the foster care system ran out of homes. We stayed because we were stray pieces of other puzzles, tired of never fitting.

In life we all should learn to forgive but never forget. Best way to learn from our mistakes.

We have a mental health system that is dominated by political and hidden forces that keep us stagnated and unable to see real, lasting change.

Every time, he breaks your hearts. And every time, he expects me to pick up the pieces.

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

Every secret has a expiration date...

You know the saying? Don't go in if you don't have a skin.

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body