Family Quotes

Blood or chosen, families shape who we become. These quotes honor those bonds.

16096 quotes

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"I am a woman, and women have no choice."
Vianne Mauriac
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"A child's innocence is precious beyond measure."
Vianne Mauriac
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"In this way the families of insomnia and plague were perpetuating their names through different variations."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"The family was cursed to repeat the same mistakes across generations."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"Úrsula remained until the moment of her death holding in her memory the name of Remedios the Beauty."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"The warmth of family is the only true shelter from the world's storms."
Úrsula Iguarán
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"Her brother was sleeping beside her, and her mother was smoking in the window."
Liesel Meminger
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"To have a daughter is to have your heart walking around outside your body."
Etienne
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"They really had been through death, but they had returned because they could not bear the solitude."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"She carried her mother's silence within her like an inheritance."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear all the notes he's never said."
Liesel Meminger
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"My father never looked at me with love. Perhaps that was the root of it all."
Circe
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"The bonds we forge are stronger than the blood we share."
Circe
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"A house is just a place. What matters is who is in it."
Ove
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"The Buendías were not capable of love."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"She refused to leave them behind."
Death
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"They lived in a town where the same names repeated across generations."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"They were the heirs to a legacy of ghosts."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"Liesel, what are you doing here?"
Hans Hubermann
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"Madness is inherited, it runs in families like courage or decency"
Pilar Ternera
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"The curse of the Buendías was not in their blood but in their hearts"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"To be a mother is to have one's heart walking outside one's body."
Fantine
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"She loved him like a brother, and that love was worth more than gold."
Death
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"A foster parent's love could be as real as any other, built on small kindnesses and shared suffering."
Death
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"It was Remedios the Beauty who suggested the idea of using the same names for new generations."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"Sometimes I think my papa is like a street."
Liesel Meminger
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"Rosa was a good woman, though her temper was fiery."
Death
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"My father had always been vain"
Circe
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"My mother never loved me"
Circe
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"My father's cruelty shaped me"
Circe