Family Quotes

"I learned that loyalty to family and loyalty to truth cannot always coexist"

"Shawn was my father's son in all the ways that mattered"

"My father was a man of contradictions"

"I was not safe in my father's house, but I was not safe anywhere else either."

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

"The most dangerous thing my parents taught me was to trust no one but them."

"I was born into a war, though I didn't understand it until much later."

"I learned that love is not always enough to keep a family together."

"My father had raised me to distrust the world, but I had learned to trust myself."

"I had to choose between my family and my life."

"I grew up the youngest of nine children."

"Shawn was my older brother, but he was not safe."

"I had never been allowed to be a child."

"My education had made me a stranger to my family."

"You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them."

"I learned that love and betrayal can coexist in the same family."