Family Quotes

"She didn't love me. She couldn't have."

"She was my sister, the only one I had."

"She gave me her face. I didn't know what she was afraid of."

"The widow Douglas she took me for her son"

"Mothers could hurt their children. Genially. Without meaning to."

"She would be a good mother. She would love her children fiercely."

"I am that version of her. I am the vessel in which her hopes have been entrusted."

"He was her father but not her family."

"She would live for them now."

"Some bonds cannot be broken, only frayed."

"The house had absorbed decades of sorrow into its walls."

"It's a special thing, the way Afghans do it."

"A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground"

"Melancholy was congenital in their line, transmitted from generation to generation like an inheritance of clothes"

"The small ghost of her mother drifted away with the car."

"Melancholy was congenital in the family."

"She had developed an unexpected maternal instinct that went beyond the boundaries of her own blood."

"It was during these months that it came to be understood how much that house needed love."

"A man is the needle and the thread."

"Family is what we fight for."

"In the end, all families are the same family."

"She discovered that beneath the harsh exterior of Rosa Hubermann beat the heart of a mother."

"We carry our homes inside us"

"The only regret he had was not having had a daughter."

"In the end, it was clear that one could not choose one's relatives."

"In the end, they were prisoners of their own blood, unable to escape their destiny."

"It's a daughter. She'll bring shame on us all."

"Mothers are not supposed to reject their children."

"You will be a good mother."

"She was awake and alive, and the words wrapping around her were those of her foster father."