However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels...
Rosamund LuptonTag: love death family-relationships loved-ones sister rosamund-lupton
It was a sickening, humbling, maddeningly powerless sensation this watching them and waiting for them to come to him. For the time they could be a family again. But Mickey did it like one’s tongue pointlessly finds a mouth sore over and over again, half to see if it was still there, half to see if it still hurt.
Genevieve DeweyTag: family-relationships
What about Danny Thomas?" Uncle Hal asks. "What happened to him?
"Dead," Uncle Abdelhafiz says. "Nice Lebanese boy."
"Never mind about Danny Thomas, look what happened to your whole family! Look at your cousin Farouq, Great Uncle Ziad, Auntie Seena and Jimmy's son Jalal," Aunt Jean cuts in disapprovingly.
"Dead, dead, dead, and in jail.
Tag: family-relationships
You'd think family would be the one sure thing in life, the gimme? Points you got just for being born? So much thick, meaty stuff bound you to these people, so many interlocking spirals of history, genetics, common cause, and struggle that it should be the most basic of all drives, that you would strive to protect and love one another, yet this bond that should be the big no-brainer was in fact the hardest thing.
Ben FountainTag: family-relationships
If you could figure out how to live with family then you'd gone a long way toward finding your peace.
Ben FountainTag: family-relationships
It ain't locked, till it's checked!
Angelo N. DallasTag: family-relationships
Rose leaned against the bathroom door. Here it was — her real life, the truth of who she was, barreling down on her like a bus with bad brakes. Here was the truth — she wasn’t the kind of person Jim could fall in love with. She wasn’t what she’d made herself out to be — a cheerful, uncomplicated girl, a normal girl with a happy, orderly life, a girl who wore pretty shoes and had nothing more pressing on her mind that whether ER was a rerun this week. The truth was in the exercise tape she didn’t have time to unwrap, let alone exercise to; the truth was her hairy legs and ugly underwear. Most of all, the truth was her sister, her gorgeous, messed-up, fantastically unhappy and astoundingly irresponsible sister.
Jennifer WeinerTag: family family-relationships siblings sibling-relationships
Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.
Rasheed OgunlaruTag: awareness upbringing family-relationships programming conditioning education-system behaviour inspiring-quotes child-development thought-patterns rasheed-ogunlaru-quotes belief-systems family-background life-stories
What matters right now is this: we're each of us standing here, together, alive, together.
Beth RevisTag: inspirational family-relationships
In WASP families, if you don't get along with someone, you have as little to do with them as possible. In Jewish families, you move next door, to make them as miserable as possible.
Doreen OrionTag: humor family culture family-relationships jewish culture-critique cultural-differences family-drama wasp
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