Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called 'family', he saw now the joys of its unyielding...

He seemed, while I was skating in the center of the pond, that the number of stars I could see had multiplied. They were scattered dense as a throttle of Bucaneve.

A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a...

And like that, the decades disappeared and the memory of that night came to life again. The way John had known it would. He didn't fight it, didn't work to stay in the here and now. If he was going to...

This last year... I learned something about family. Like it's not about blood alone. It's being connected... it's growing up together and loving each other. It's believing in the same God and knowing...

Every Saturday morning, first thing before breakfast, his parents held conferences with their children requiring them to answer two questions put to each of them: 1. What have you learned that is true...

Before I can say , I was. Heraclitus and I, prophets of flux, know that the flux is composed of parts that imitate and repeat each other. Am or was, I am cumulative, too. I am everything I ever was,...

Is there any place on Earth that smells better than a laundromat? It's like a rainy Sunday when you don't have to get out from under your covers, or like lying back on the grass your father's just...

What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course.

The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always...

My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

When the wounded were screaming, you dreamed of sharing a little house somewhere, of an ordinary life, of a family line, connection. All around him, men were walking silently with their thoughts,...

...Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think...

A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some first impressions of fatherhood. He responded, simply, 'Everything is possible...

{You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.}{You are wrong. Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving...

She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.

The worst moments are when my entire family is in the same room. With the people I should love the most surrounding me, I feel the most alone.

Jacob smiled from ear to ear when he shook the man's hand on stage. The man then handed him a trophy.

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.

It's all a game. And if you don't want to play, maybe you shouldn't come to Hollywood.

When Nico had woken up at Barrachina and found the Hunters' note about kidnapping Reyna, he'd torn apart the courtyard in rage. He didn't want the Hunters stealing another important person from him....

Nico didn't like to be touched, but somehow this brief contact with his father felt reassuring – the same way the Chapel of Bones was reassuring. Like death, his father's presence was cold and often...

Then we still have time! I gasp. It's not too late. We know what he's going to do. We'll return to the cave and fight. ? Kernel says sarcastically.Yes! I'll fight to save Dervish and Bill-E. I don't...

It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all you do to help him learn to be happy and whole and...

Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.

It was the very image of innocence. I wanted to remember this moment always, to look at it when I needed something good to hold on to.

A mother was only as happy as her most unhappy child.

I thought of my mother and her wise advice. She'd always been there for me. Even when I was at my worst. She made me want to be a better son.

{Mom} said she didn't want her youngest daughter dressed in the thrift-store clothes the rest of us wore. Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting. Isn't that a sin? I asked Mom. Not exactly, Mom...