Family Quotes

"That was the thing about Sodapop. He understood."

"Growing up means remembering those who shaped you."

"I've never asked you for much, have I?"

"I wish I had a real daddy."

"I love my family more than anything."

"Darry is hard on me, I think."

"My mother taught me that love isn't always enough"

"I had to choose between my family and my dreams"

"We were a family"

"Darry is twenty and he doesn't have time to be a hero."

"We're all we've got, little buddy."

"Family is complicated"

"Pick me up at the hospital. I'm gonna be there."

"Darry's a greaser."

"I'm not going anywhere."

"We're all we got left."

"We're all we have."

"Your life is not your own"

"Tyler understood my need to escape"

"I loved Darry. I couldn't help it."

"I was not my father's daughter, I was my father's son."

"But now we are Six, exactly as we meant to be."

"Home becomes more precious the farther you travel from it."

"The deciding factor is always the self—the character, the habit of mind that was created in childhood and adolescence."

"You can love someone and still choose to leave them."

"I was my father's daughter. That was something I could not change."

"My brothers and I were born into a radical Christian family."

"My brothers paid a price for leaving, and so did I."

"I had a choice. I could accept their reality and lose myself, or cling to my reality and lose them"

"My mother had sacrificed her life to a man's delusion"