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1 " Too bad. Family members hit you by accident. Psychopathic whores tend to come back for more. "
― Richelle Mead , Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2)
2 " Was she pregnant then?' asked Assad. Judging by the number of family members in his photos, it was a feminine condition with which he was quite familiar. "
― Jussi Adler-Olsen , The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, #1)
3 " Setting the intention to practice kindness toward one’s partner or family members or friends does not preclude getting angry or upset. "
― Sharon Salzberg , Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
4 " I remembered a friend of mine dying from AIDS, and while he was visiting his family on the coast for the last time, he was seated in the grass during a picnic to which dozens of family members were invited. He looked up from his fried chicken and said, " I just want to die with a big dick in my mouth. "
5 " You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family. "
― Trenton Lee Stewart , The Mysterious Benedict Society (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #1)
6 " Unfortunately, some family members are so psychotic that no matter how hard you try to forge a healthy relationship, nothing will help. Now that you're an adult, take refuge in the fact that some things are beyond your control. You owe it to yourself to steer clear of people who are harmful to your health. "
― , Your So-Called Life: A Guide to Boys, Body Issues, and Other Big-Girl Drama You Thought You Would Have Figured Out by Now
7 " In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by number of heads counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help family members create, by the memories you share, by the commitment of time, caring, and love you show to one another, and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit. "
8 " Flea stared at us, " I can't decide what's worse. Losing family members or not having a family member to lose. "
9 " A theatrical spectacle is inherent whenever family members congregate and reacquaint themselves with powerful universal themes educed from homecomings including hugs, food, drink, conversation, politics, games, music, conflict, terror, mercy, smiles, tears, prayers, misfortune, and self-discovery. "
― , Dead Toad Scrolls
10 " That was the thing about weddings: they forced family members to deal with one another, like it or not. "
11 " My father would laugh behind my back to other family members whenever he heard I was doing something knew. “He wrote a book, what does he know about writing a book? What school did he go to, to be writing a book?” While he laughed and asked about my credentials, I to laughed because what someone would go to school for, I could simply go on YouTube, search the web or simply read a book from someone who’s done it before me. "
12 " First they burned her - that was last month. Actually just two weeks ago. Now they're starvng him. When he's dead, they'll burn him too.Oh, how jolly. All this burning of family members in the summertime. "
― Lydia Davis , Varieties of Disturbance
13 " The more dysfunctional, the more some family members seek to control the behavior of others. "
14 " Chaos limits the free-flow of love and becomes a roadblock to what family members want most and sadly, it becomes the normal for the family. "
15 " Today focus on the qualities you like about yourself, focus on the good friends and family members you have around you .feed today with gratefulness . what you focus on I believe will remain constant in your life. "
― Micheline Jean Louis
16 " The most important quality in the man you decide to marry should be the ability to make you laugh. Beauty fades, careers end, money comes and goes, religions change, children grow up and move away, spouses get sick, struggles happen, family members die, senility sets in when your older, but the ability to make you giggle every day is the most precious gift God can give you to get through all of it. "
― Shannon L. Alder , 350 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask Before Marriage
17 " Betrayal is the most powerful poisonous tool which permanently destroys the bonds of your friends or family members. Therefore, true bonds of your friends or family members can never get recovered again or will not remain the same because you purposely have broken your true commitment with them. "
18 " Friends are family members we have a choice over. "
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
19 " Allegations of multi-perpetrator and multi-victim sexual abuse emerged to public awareness in the early 1980s contemporaneously with the denials of the accused and their supporters. Multi-perpetrator sexual offences are typically more sadistic than solo offences and organised sexual abuse is no exception. Adults and children with histories of organised abuse have described lives marked by torturous and sometimes ritualistic sexual abuse arranged by family members and other care-givers and authority figures. It is widely acknowledged, at least in theory, that sexual abuse can take severe forms, but when disclosures of such abuse occur, they are routinely subject to contestation and challenge. People accused of organised, sadistic or ritualistic abuse have protested that their accusers are liars and fantasists, or else innocents led astray by overly zealous investigators. This was an argument that many journalists and academics have found more convincing than the testimony of alleged victims. "
― , Organised Sexual Abuse
20 " The most difficult journey any of us ever take in our adulthood is the return to our parents’ house. A home visit makes us recall all of the childhood events that formed us. Returning home reacquaints us with family members and our former self. "
