I love these quotes because they remind me what is important, and that other people have crazy families too. enjoy :)
"Families are mess. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related, for better or worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum." ~ Percy Jackson and the Lighting Thief ~ Rick Riordan, (Percy)
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. ~ Albert Camus
A happy family is but an earlier heaven. ~ George Bernard Shaw
If I had only felt the warmth within your touch - If I had only seen how you smile when you blush - Or how you curl your lip when you concentrate enough - Well I would have known - What I was living for all along - What I've been living for - Your love is my turning page - Where only the sweetest words remain - Every kiss is a cursive line - Every touch is a redefining phrase ~ Turning Page – Sleeping at Last
People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own. ~ Doug Coupland
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. ~ Alex Haley
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. ~ Oprah Winfrey
"Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble." ~ Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack. ~ Jodi Picoult
Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches. ~ Jim Carrey
I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that. ~ Adam Sandler
True friends stab you in the front. ~ Oscar Wilde
"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (Bilbo Baggins)
"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." ~ Aristotle
Family is not an important thing. It's everything. ~ Michael J. Fox
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
"HAPPINESS [is] ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED" ― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
"The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career. " ― C.S. Lewis
What would you do if I sang out of tune, - Would you stand up and walk out on me? - Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song - And I'll try not to sing out of key. - Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends ~ Joe Cocker – With a little Help from my Friends
"Remember George, no man is a failure who has friends." ~ It's a Wonderful Life (Clarence)
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
'Even longer,' Pooh answered." ~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. ~ Leo Buscaglia
"Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing." ~ E.B. White, Charlotte's Web
"My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is." ― Ellen DeGeneres
"Only a true friend would be that truly honest." ~ Shrek (Donkey)
"Hermes gazed up at the stars. "My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the Internet-"
"You invented the Internet?"
It was my idea, Martha said.
Rats are delicious, George said.
"It was my idea!" Hermes said. "I mean the Internet, not the rats." ~ The Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan (Percy, Hermes, and George and Martha [the snakes on Hermes' staff])
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
"Just a minute... just a minute. Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You're right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was... why, in the 25 years since he and his brother, Uncle Billy, started this thing, he never once thought of himself. Isn't that right, Uncle Billy? He didn't save enough money to send Harry away to college, let alone me. But he did help a few people get out of your slums, Mr. Potter, and what's wrong with that? Why... here, you're all businessmen here. Doesn't it make them better citizens? Doesn't it make them better customers? You... you said... what'd you say a minute ago? They had to wait and save their money before they even ought to think of a decent home. Wait? Wait for what? Until their children grow up and leave them? Until they're so old and broken down that they... Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well in my book, my father died a much richer man than you'll ever be!" ~ It's a Wonderful Life (George Bailey)
How much I wished that Jacob Black had been born my brother, my flesh-and-blood brother, so that I would have some legitimate claim on him that still left me free of any blame now. ~ New Moon – Stephanie Meyers (Bella Swan [ch 9 p219])
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
And for another, if only one of us can be a parent, anyone can see it should be Peeta. As I drift off, I try to imagine that world, somewhere in the future, with no Games, no Capitol. A place like the meadow in the song I sang to Rue as she died. Where Peeta's child could be safe. ~ Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins (Katniss Everdeen [ch. 24])
"A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship." ~ The Book Thief - Markus Zusak (Liesle)
"To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches. To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing-I'm sorry, I would rather not go on." ~ Life of Pi― Yann Martel
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ~ Virginia Woolf
I believe a light that shines on you will shine on you forever - And though I can't guarantee there's nothing scary hiding under your bed - I'm gonna stand guard like a postcard of a Golden Retriever - And never leave 'til I leave you with a sweet dream in your head - I'm gonna watch you shine - Gonna watch you grow - Gonna paint a sign - So you'll always know - As long as one and one is two - There could never be a father - Who loved his daughter more than I love you ~ Father and Daughter - Paul Simon
"I have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at 21. The friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for life. They are my children's godparents, the people to whom I've been able to turn in times of trouble, friends who have been kind enough not to sue me when I've used their names for Death Eaters. At our graduation we were bound by enormous affection, by our shared experience of a time that could never come again, and, of course, by the knowledge that we held certain photographic evidence that would be exceptionally valuable if any of us ran for Prime Minister." ~ J.K. Rowling
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. ~ Bruce Lee
"A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face." ~ Maya Angelou - Letter to My Daughter
'Cause I've got friends in low places where the whiskey drowns - And the beer chases my blues away and I'll be okay - I'm not big on social graces, think I'll slip on down to the oasis - Oh, I've got friends in low places ~ Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks
"I found out what the secret to life is-friends. Best friends." ~ Fried Green Tomatoes (Idgie Threadgoode)
There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me, 'keep your friends close, but your enemies closer'. ~ The Godfather: Part II (Michael Corleone)
Without you I was broken - But I'd rather be broke down with you by my side ~ Broken - Jack Johnson
It's always more fun - To share with everyone - If you have two - Give one to your friend - If you have three - Give one to your friend and me ~ The Sharing Song– Jack Johnson
"How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em." ~ Shel Silverstein
My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get. ~ Forrest Gump
"It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you." ~ Mark Twain
"He must have known I'd want to leave you."
"No, he must have known you would always want to come back." ~ J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Ron and Harry)
Somewhere far away, I can hear the crowd murmuring unhappily as they always do when a twelve-year-old gets chosen because no one thinks this is fair. And then I see her, the blood drained from her face, hands clenched in fists at her sides, walking with stiff, small steps up toward the stage, passing me, and I see the back of her blouse has become un-tucked and hangs out over her skirt. It's this detail, the un-tucked blouse forming a ducktail, that brings me back to myself.
"Prim!" The strangled cry comes out of my throat, and my muscles begin to move again. "Prim!" I don't need to shove through the crowd. The other kids make way immediately allowing me a straight path to the stage. I reach her just as she is about to mount the steps. With one sweep of my arm, I push her behind me.
"I volunteer!" I gasp. "I volunteer as tribute!" ~ The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins (Katniss Everdeen)
thanks so much for reading come find me on tumblr same name ~ flip fantasia and the first chapter for The Soul Waits is also up. It's a hunger games fanfic about Peeta's dad and Katniss's mom. :)