Top 100 Family Fiction Quotes

#1. Dear family,

I am drafting a new laundry protocol for better and more considerate usage of the washing machine

Koh Choon Hwee

Family Fiction Quotes #1005889
#2. For some reason, people try to fill you with food when you're filled with grief. I didn't need food. I needed a reason to keep living

Priscille Sibley

Family Fiction Quotes #1182354
#3. No," I said. "I can't remember doing this."
"Oh," Rena made and gestured dramatically. "You don't remember it. And that automatically means you didn't do it?

Lili Frings

Family Fiction Quotes #1172118
#4. I wish I could run into the world's arms. Linger within the spaces between nothing. I wish I could filter out of existence. To live quietly without dying. I wish I could be cherished by life itself. To speak and sing volumes without lying to myself.

F.K. Preston

Family Fiction Quotes #1169704
#5. Darling, in this family we don't call anyone a novelist who has not written more books than Jane Austen.

Pansy Schneider-Horst

Family Fiction Quotes #1148571
#6. If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them.

Douglas Coupland

Family Fiction Quotes #1137151
#7. It was an oddly satisfying idea to feel bereft as I left my mother this time. We only feel bereft when we're deprived of something meaningful.

Laura Anderson Kurk

Family Fiction Quotes #1125746
#8. We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Family Fiction Quotes #1106541
#9. Papa was our strength and the very fiber that wove our family together. He was our foundation and our rock, but even rocks, break, given enough stress.

Nancy B. Brewer

Family Fiction Quotes #1105384
#10. No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.

Amy Tan

Family Fiction Quotes #1104950
#11. Every time you think of your dad, you're
resurrecting him. Why shouldn't he continue to live
in this world while resting in the other?

Clyde DeSouza

Family Fiction Quotes #1083386
#12. No matter where she went, God was her family. He was her hope.

Tricia Goyer

Family Fiction Quotes #1053376
#13. You'll forget your inner peace, forget that it comes from impermanence. From knowing that everything will break. And only reason can right you.

E.J. Koh

Family Fiction Quotes #1013433
#14. I do what I do because I am who I am. Don't make me over.

Danee Riggs

Family Fiction Quotes #1189442
#15. We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.

John Green

Family Fiction Quotes #935256
#16. We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey.

Kathryn Joyce

Family Fiction Quotes #930244
#17. Family is a permanent adhesive that creates a lifetime bond.

Conrad Brooks

Family Fiction Quotes #921682
#18. A mother is an individual who'd go to any length for someone else, beyond rationality, beyond her physical body, her social bindings of state, country, her kind. That's the most horrifying individual you'll ever meet.

E.J. Koh

Family Fiction Quotes #915335
#19. Dead at twenty. To die here on a strange planet I'd never seen and without any friends or family. Except for an alien named Garran.

Kalli Lanford

Family Fiction Quotes #914464
#20. My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.

Rainn Wilson

Family Fiction Quotes #894351
#21. Reluctantly, we had already accepted every challenge at the moment we were born. And as long as we live, we have no right to give up. For we, or at least someone very similar to us, already died once, long ago in a faraway place.

Jeno Marz

Family Fiction Quotes #892456
#22. A very smart woman once asked me, 'Do you think money is the answer to everything?' I have a family issue and I'm going home

Cindy Woodsmall

Family Fiction Quotes #868170
#23. Not many people bothered to look for beauty beyond the greenhouses. They went about life with their heads down, just praying to get through the day, to feed themselves and their family. No one ever did anything to make it better.

Erica Lindquist

Family Fiction Quotes #857767
#24. The world doesn't owe you anything because you're in it, but you owe yourself the world because it is in you.

Kat Kaelin

Family Fiction Quotes #818277
#25. I really, really need some help and advice. I'm scared ... I'm scared of my own home, of my own daughter!

Meinos Kaen

Family Fiction Quotes #787054
#26. It seemed to me that Mr. Forrester would approve of a woman who could follow him in conversation and not be baffled by ledgers and currency conversions. I had grossly overestimated him.

Gwenn Wright

Family Fiction Quotes #1357899
#27. There are only two things you'll ever need to know about me, Farin - and you should know them well. I'm very smart, and I'm very rich.

Heather O'Brien

Family Fiction Quotes #1507140
#28. [Attending the Sun Dance] There was a smattering of tourists, both serious and recreational. Professors of anthropology and ethnology. Writers of fact and other fiction. A family from Wisconsin pausing on their long, sacred pilgrimage to The Land of Disney.

James D. Doss

Family Fiction Quotes #1495651
#29. Oil and Water, Daddy calls us. At four years younger than me, Katie is only fourteen and she already has half the boys in town eating from her pretty little hand. She tells me I am too tall and too wicked looking to capture the heart of any sensible young man.

Gwenn Wright

Family Fiction Quotes #1476951
#30. When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.

Alice Hoffman

Family Fiction Quotes #1470265
#31. I don't correct her to let her know her backdoor wisdom yanks me deep into another country, where water runs uphill.

Justin Bog

Family Fiction Quotes #1460059
#32. In the white marble hall of the hotel, I'm waltzing with Rajat. The music is a river and we're dancing in it. It winds against our bodies, muscular as a serpent.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Family Fiction Quotes #1457492
#33. People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend or family member to a novel I believe they'll cherish but might not otherwise have thought to pick up and read.

Chris Bohjalian

Family Fiction Quotes #1450488
#34. Breathe, Emma. Now is not the time to swoon.

Eva Walker

Family Fiction Quotes #1431234
#35. A few minutes after the initial excited greetings they found themselves journeying in a maxi cab with a contended expression on their fatigued countenances as the moment held promise of forthcoming days of bliss and catch-up prattle that usually follows a family reunion.

Neetha Joseph

Family Fiction Quotes #1397021
#36. Fiction is the poor persons travel agent.

L.Douglas Muncy

Family Fiction Quotes #1385622
#37. Fight with me again and let us prove that we will keep what is ours! - Corin

Claire M. Banschbach

Family Fiction Quotes #1384304
#38. Hope is putting Faith "on the line" and expecting results!
(from Mission Possible - Spiritual Covering)

Deborah L. McCarragher

Family Fiction Quotes #1360475
#39. Lieutenant Mortas is the black sheep of the family--I thought you knew that.

Henry V. O'Neil

Family Fiction Quotes #781216
#40. You're injured." He flicks his chin at my bleeding leg.
"We need to get that cleaned up."
"It'll be fine," I wave it off. "My mom will descend upon me with a bottle of
peroxide the second I hit the door.

M.A. George

Family Fiction Quotes #1335404
#41. I can be anything I want to be. Just wait and you will see. Only time will tell what I will be.

Jason J. Greenaway

Family Fiction Quotes #1332474
#42. The blank sheet stares up at me, its emptiness like a slap. Those were the last words Ginny ever wrote before she and her family were murdered.

Jennifer Walkup

Family Fiction Quotes #1323668
#43. Loneliness struck again, its force doubled by how much she wished it was her family there instead. Then oddly enough, she met the boy's stare and that feeling came again, that this was her family.

Marcha A. Fox

Family Fiction Quotes #1313807
#44. Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You're my ideal reader, friend, partner. I'm your fan.

Brook Tesla

Family Fiction Quotes #1313777
#45. It was as though everything that mattered was encapsulated in that last moment of my blissful state of oblivion.

Sarah Swainson

Family Fiction Quotes #1309842
#46. There is a gap in my work from '84 to 2002, 18 years where I stopped writing. I was working at fiction and other things and starting a school and getting married and starting a family, but I wasn't writing poetry for the better part of 15 years.

Philip Schultz

Family Fiction Quotes #1238401
#47. The monkey liked most humans. They left food cans outside their homes for his family to rummage through in the morning
sun. Some yelled and threw sticks, but were slow and didn't bite. Humans were mostly harmless.

Cole Alpaugh

Family Fiction Quotes #1216267
#48. If my life was pulled into the pages of a book, there would be coffee stains and wrinkles along the lines of that narrative. Because all I can wish is that the book of my life would be well read and well loved. Living within words and the sound of writing.

F.K. Preston

Family Fiction Quotes #1215361
#49. I like these games we play, the ones that involve our heads and our hearts ~ Page 212

S.L. Scott

Family Fiction Quotes #1198535
#50. The great joy and honour of my life has been to know you. To call you my family. And I am grateful - more than I can possibly say - that I was given this time with you all

Sarah J. Maas

Family Fiction Quotes #1196018
#51. Mankind has a mandate to care for the earth and all that is within it, especially the animals, and an animal should never be placed in a position where he needs to be concerned about such things. But this is not that time.

Tara Pollard

Family Fiction Quotes #191795
#52. All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

Alan Lightman

Family Fiction Quotes #463959
#53. You know-portraits are odd things." "How do you figure?" I asked. "Well at the time, that portrait told the whole story. It told the truth. We were a family-a happy family. Now that same portrait just looks like a lie.

Brian Joyce

Family Fiction Quotes #455088
#54. I wasn't writing home. I wasn't writing a death letter, either. I was writing a death journal, a piece of fiction meant for my family and my fiancee, Sara.

Clint Van Winkle

Family Fiction Quotes #414290
#55. The greatest happiness is a quiet kind. It's the tender understanding that we're living in a very strange place full of strange creatures. And there's quite a bit of wonder in that.

F.K. Preston

Family Fiction Quotes #397470
#56. You don't turn your back on your destiny.

Trine Villemann

Family Fiction Quotes #375073
#57. All that is required of you is an open mind and a little patience.

F.K. Preston

Family Fiction Quotes #358886
#58. It was as if his fingers knew things, but they couldn't show him unless they were moving, touching. He had to think it was similar for carpenters and writers, and he knew it was the same for chefs.

Laura Lippman

Family Fiction Quotes #307073
#59. Aw honey. Today's as important as forever." Grandpa Joe in "Shave and a Haircut" Flash Warden and Other Stories

Eileen Granfors

Family Fiction Quotes #287151
#60. Writing is a pleasure but family is a blessing!

Prentiss Grant

Family Fiction Quotes #261417
#61. I stare into the ruggedly handsome face, the eyes alight with a vast intelligence and that eerie, unearthly power. He's beautiful, so haunted with power it takes me a second to realize exactly what position Nolan Storm has put me in, and by extension, my family.

L.E. Sterling

Family Fiction Quotes #244968
#62. Parenthood doesn't improve one's character, it exposes it.

Leslie A. Gordon

Family Fiction Quotes #231708
#63. If disguise was a vehicle, murder was a world.

E.J. Koh

Family Fiction Quotes #205412
#64. You daughter is prudish?" There was a gleam of triumph in Helena Winter's face. Fee grimaced. Prudish? No, not that she could claim. Far too mild a word for what she felt.

Mary Brock Jones

Family Fiction Quotes #471380
#65. I don't know what's worse, being ignored or stared at.

Renata Suerth

Family Fiction Quotes #181858
#66. When we decided to move West, I worried about how to defend my family and my stock from Indians, but I never worried about inheriting one!"
--from Prairie Grace when Georgia's father Thomas realizes gravely ill Gray Wolf has been left at their doorstep

Marilyn Bay Wentz

Family Fiction Quotes #172267
#67. You didn't just accidentally win my favor," I dispute, slowly shaking my
forehead against his.
"You earned it. Now, if I can just save your life twenty or thirty more times ... We might actually be able to call it even.

M.A. George

Family Fiction Quotes #170704
#68. Never Let anyone tell you that you can't; show them that you can.

Gloria Mallette

Family Fiction Quotes #167729
#69. I look at you, Mrs. Emily. I see your eyes smile before your lips. Your hair has a curl that droops onto your forehead when the weather is humid . . .

I look at you too, Sabine. I see you.

Phyllis H. Moore

Family Fiction Quotes #79467
#70. In our family histories, the frontier between fact and fiction is vague, especially in the record of events that took place before we were born, or when we were too young to record them accurately; there are few maps to these remote regions, and only the occasional sign to guide the explorer.

Adam Sisman

Family Fiction Quotes #70628
#71. No one wants to rattle the cage of a "crazy" person whose family tends to snap.

Nicole Gulla

Family Fiction Quotes #65585
#72. We may be finished with the past but the past is not finished with us.

Donald Riggio

Family Fiction Quotes #64323
#73. I know you think I should be home taking care of my family. That maybe I'd be distracted or I wouldn't be as committed as the rest of you, but who's more committed: the person with something to lose, or the people who've got nothing left?

Bill Blais

Family Fiction Quotes #63153
#74. The ice cold fear I'd felt, not knowing if Wyatt was alive, pressed into the wall with other girls and surrounded by guys who were unspeakably brave, hit my body again in a wave. This was trauma - the gift that keeps on giving.

Laura Anderson Kurk

Family Fiction Quotes #33288
#75. There is nothing to me but you. I know it's pathetic but, oh darling, it's true.

F.K. Preston

Family Fiction Quotes #18914
#76. Every family has secrets, Reena, and they're there for a reason.

Renita D'Silva

Family Fiction Quotes #625550
#77. We saved the lives of a whole family that night. Children, parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents, all sailed to safety in Sweden inside a little fisherman's boat."

Johannes aka 'BB'
The Informer by Steen Langstrup

Steen Langstrup

Family Fiction Quotes #764174
#78. The morning was brisk and the coffee was hot and roasted with little gurgles in the room. Rosie hadn't moved, but she let out a tiny snore every now and again that made everything perfect.

Ruth McLeod-Kearns

Family Fiction Quotes #763753
#79. None of us could choose our birth, but we could still chose our family, and only those who love you are your true family.

Meg Xuemei X

Family Fiction Quotes #737714
#80. Honest, hopelessly romantic old-fashioned gentleman seeks lady friend who enjoys elegant dining, dancing and the slow bloom of affection.

Claire Cook

Family Fiction Quotes #736664
#81. The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.

Sylvia Porter

Family Fiction Quotes #726452
#82. I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you're too busy living.

F.K. Preston

Family Fiction Quotes #716094
#83. It's in a can. It's good forever.

Renata Suerth

Family Fiction Quotes #697442
#84. Social dynamic theory is philosophy, not politics. There can't be only one correct answer, or there would only be one book. Sharon L Reddy, Worldcon, 1995.

Sharon L. Reddy

Family Fiction Quotes #689306
#85. We want to know. We want to know who we are and what we are capable of.

I want to know.

And yet we were dragged into another war. Another seemingly inevitable and gruesome legacy passed down, along with soma.

Jeno Marz

Family Fiction Quotes #664327
#86. You are you because you love the way the world looks through your camera. You are you because of the way you love your friends and family. Not because some scar is on your body. That's a part of your history and what helps form what you believe in. not what defines you.

A.M. Willard

Family Fiction Quotes #659418
#87. Family tends to be one of the recurring themes in my fiction.

Sharon Shinn

Family Fiction Quotes #653136
#88. There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.

Garrison Keillor

Family Fiction Quotes #635993
#89. Miz Ellen, what do you carry in that handbag of yours that has enough wallop to knock down a full-grown man? - Dan Landry

Jane Rainwater

Family Fiction Quotes #13236
#90. Violence can read like poetry. You just have to describe the act as if you're in love with the way your characters bleed.

F.K. Preston

Family Fiction Quotes #611923
#91. Love is the net profit on life.

Sharon L. Reddy

Family Fiction Quotes #584217
#92. What am I doing here, Reena? Why am I dancing to the tunes of that old hag?'You are saving your family.

Renita D'Silva

Family Fiction Quotes #583223
#93. I believe a family just isn't complete without skeletons. My dearest momma clean bit off my daddy's nose right around the time they divorced.

Cole Alpaugh

Family Fiction Quotes #577546
#94. It was important to tell people. To let people know that this can happen. Your child's body can stop. Stop breathing, stop beating.

Sarah Moss

Family Fiction Quotes #574110
#95. It feels as though it were just yesterday Grandfather exited my life like a bullet, leaving a bleeding hole behind.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Family Fiction Quotes #572284
#96. History will be kind to me for I have written it. Winston Churchill

Ron Mayes

Family Fiction Quotes #568360
#97. To get here had been painful, but for once in my life I felt free.

Sarah Swainson

Family Fiction Quotes #541445
#98. Can the child who is Dell; be the outer emoodiment of man's quest to save himself? To cure himself? ... Or, to "be" himself?

Milkweed L. Augustine

Family Fiction Quotes #531349
#99. My creativity keeps me from starving. Humanity keeps my life mundane. Loving secures my love for life, but my imagination keeps me sane.

F.K. Preston

Family Fiction Quotes #517633
#100. The history of fiction is about family - an inexhaustible subject for literature. We are creatures driven by emotions that are on high display in intimate relations - inside the family.

Siri Hustvedt

Family Fiction Quotes #487611

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