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
#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
#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
#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
#5. Darling, in this family we don't call anyone a novelist who has not written more books than Jane Austen.
Pansy Schneider-Horst
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#12. No matter where she went, God was her family. He was her hope.
Tricia Goyer
#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
#14. I do what I do because I am who I am. Don't make me over.
Danee Riggs
#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
#16. We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey.
Kathryn Joyce
#17. Family is a permanent adhesive that creates a lifetime bond.
Conrad Brooks
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#30. When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
Alice Hoffman
#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
#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
#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
#34. Breathe, Emma. Now is not the time to swoon.
Eva Walker
#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
#37. Fight with me again and let us prove that we will keep what is ours! - Corin
Claire M. Banschbach
#38. Hope is putting Faith "on the line" and expecting results!
(from Mission Possible - Spiritual Covering)
Deborah L. McCarragher
#39. Lieutenant Mortas is the black sheep of the family--I thought you knew that.
Henry V. O'Neil
#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
#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
#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
#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
#44. Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You're my ideal reader, friend, partner. I'm your fan.
Brook Tesla
#45. It was as though everything that mattered was encapsulated in that last moment of my blissful state of oblivion.
Sarah Swainson
#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
#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
#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
#49. I like these games we play, the ones that involve our heads and our hearts ~ Page 212
S.L. Scott
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#57. All that is required of you is an open mind and a little patience.
F.K. Preston
#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
#59. Aw honey. Today's as important as forever." Grandpa Joe in "Shave and a Haircut" Flash Warden and Other Stories
Eileen Granfors
#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
#62. Parenthood doesn't improve one's character, it exposes it.
Leslie A. Gordon
#63. If disguise was a vehicle, murder was a world.
E.J. Koh
#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
#65. I don't know what's worse, being ignored or stared at.
Renata Suerth
#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
#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
#68. Never Let anyone tell you that you can't; show them that you can.
Gloria Mallette
#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
#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
#71. No one wants to rattle the cage of a "crazy" person whose family tends to snap.
Nicole Gulla
#72. We may be finished with the past but the past is not finished with us.
Donald Riggio
#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
#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
#75. There is nothing to me but you. I know it's pathetic but, oh darling, it's true.
F.K. Preston
#76. Every family has secrets, Reena, and they're there for a reason.
Renita D'Silva
#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
#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
#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
#80. Honest, hopelessly romantic old-fashioned gentleman seeks lady friend who enjoys elegant dining, dancing and the slow bloom of affection.
Claire Cook
#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
#82. I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you're too busy living.
F.K. Preston
#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
#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
#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
#87. Family tends to be one of the recurring themes in my fiction.
Sharon Shinn
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#95. It feels as though it were just yesterday Grandfather exited my life like a bullet, leaving a bleeding hole behind.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#96. History will be kind to me for I have written it. Winston Churchill
Ron Mayes
#97. To get here had been painful, but for once in my life I felt free.
Sarah Swainson
#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
#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
#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
