Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me.
John Kennedy TooleTags: motherhood families mrs-irene-riley
Modern families are complicated things. Siblings, half siblings, stepparents, stepcousins, what have you. You can't pick who you're born to, that's for sure.
Cherie PriestTags: families
Nuclear Weapons aren't much of a threat, today; compared to Families of the world, going Nuclear.
Aniruddha SastikarTags: life world today threat nuclear-weapons families nuclear-families
Shahid was the free spirit of the Kamal family: a dreamer, an idealist, a wanderer on the face of the earth--or, as Ahmed would put it, a lazy fuckwit.
John LanchesterTags: dreamers laziness families idealists free-spirits wanderers
All the Kamals were fluent in irritation. They loved each other but were almost always annoyed by each other, in ways that were both generalised and existential (why is he like that?) and also highly specific (how hard is it to remember to put the top back on the yoghurt?).
John LanchesterTags: love relationships irritation families
Eine Familie, die keine schwarzen Schafe hat, ist keine charakteristische Familie."
("A family without a black sheep is not a typical family.")
Tags: families black-sheep
Secret elisions within families are suddenly revealed by self-execution, and just as quickly sheeted with excuses, blame, and counter-blame. But sense is made of the world only through relationship between action and reaction, symptom and cause. No change is possible without analysis of accountability.
Antonella Gambotto-BurkeTags: suicide action excuses reaction cause blame accountability families analysis symptom counter-blame secret-elisions self-execution
Step-parents, those fairy tale villains,
Have been given a bad name.
They're easy targets.
When the family goes awry
How easy to blame them.
I was blessed by the right steps...
Tags: growing-up divorce families step-parents
Oh, my father, such a difficult man.
His world turned on his axis.
From "The Father Tamer" in BREATHE IN
Tags: love secrets wife discipline father daughter families
This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.
Raquel CepedaTags: life parents forgetting coming-of-age divorce families family-saga
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