“If you don’t know your man’s friends or family after you’ve gotten serious, there may be someone else who does.”— Maxwell Billieon, essence.com
“A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.”— Toni Morrison, books.google.com
“Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. From the tiny impressions gleaned from one another, they created a sense of belonging and tried to make do with the way t…”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“I didn’t feel like a whole person anymore. I felt like I was … like not even half, like I was just a portion of a human being. I just felt filthy and disgusting. I felt like, Who could ever want me back? Who could ever want to talk to me? Who would ever be my friend? I don’t know what the exact defi…”— Elizabeth A. Smart, amazon.com
“This experience reminded me once again that God had not deserted me, that He was aware of my suffering and loneliness. And that assurance gave me hope. It helped me to keep my faith and gave me the strength that I needed to go on.”— Elizabeth A. Smart, Chris Stewart, amazon.com
“The realization that my family would still love me proved to be the turning point. In fact, it proved to be the most important moment throughout my entire nine-month ordeal.”— Elizabeth A. Smart, Chris Stewart, amazon.com
“Your personality is not just a matter of what you know about yourself, but what others know about you. You are one person with your mother, and another with your lover, and yet another with your child. Those other people create you--finish you--as much as you create you. When you're gone, the ones y…”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“If there’s love, dear… those are the ties that bind, and you’ll have a family in your heart, forever. All my love to you, poppet. You’re going to be all right. Bye bye.”— Robin Williams, amazon.com
“My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contract. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.”— Robin Williams, telegraph.co.uk
“I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult.”— Emma Watson, bbcamerica.com
“The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”— Jay McInerney, amazon.com
“A child embarrassed by his mother,’ she said, ‘is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“You can tell what was the best year of your father's life, because they seem to freeze that clothing style and ride it out.”— Jerry Seinfeld, rd.com