Family Drama Quotes

“No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of me, so how could I have explained it to them?”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

“You don’t have to be around long to understand the world is a frightening place, that life includes situations you have no control over, that anything can happen. Everybody needs friends and a family.”
― Jack Getze, Making Hearts

“Today I wore a pair of faded old jeans and a plain grey baggy shirt. I hadn't even taken a shower, and I did not put on an ounce of makeup. I grabbed a worn out black oversized jacket to cover myself with even though it is warm outside. I have made conscious decisions lately to look like less of what I felt a male would want to see. I want to disappear.”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

“Mama gasped. “She’s pregnant?” 
The nurse stood. “Not pregnant. In labor. About to deliver her child… when did your water break, honey?”
― Jack Getze, Making Hearts

“Clutching me in her arms, Mama stared at Emily. “You have a responsibility to this child.”
― Jack Getze, Making Hearts

“It never dawned on us that life is unpredictable, that one day, one of us could suddenly cease to exist and what then? What would be the joy in having left so much unsaid? With what memories would we fill the empty silence?”
― Isabel Lopez, Isabel's Hand-Me-Down Dreams

“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

“You guys are so caught up in your polished images and your passive-aggressive comments that no one ever comes right out and says anything. Well, I'm going to.”
― Richelle Mead, Gameboard of the Gods

“That voice that cries out doesn't have to be a weakling's does it?”
― John Osborne, Look Back in Anger

“Όλες οι ευτυχισμένες οικογένειες μοιάζουν μεταξύ τους. Κάθε δυστυχισμένη οικογένεια, όμως, είναι δυστυχισμένη με το δικό της τρόπο”
― Leon Tolstoy

“If I weren't so screwed up, I would've sold my soul a long time ago for a handsome man who made me feel pretty or who could at least treat me to a Millionaire's Martini. Instead I lingered over a watered down Sparkling Apple and felt sorry about what I was about to do to the blue-eyed bartender standing in front of me. Although I shouldn’t, after all, I am a bail recovery agent. It's my job to get my skip, no matter the cost.If I weren't so screwed up, I would've sold my soul a long time ago for a handsome man who made me feel pretty or who could at least treat me to a Millionaire's Martini. Instead I lingered over a watered down Sparkling Apple and felt sorry about what I was about to do to the blue-eyed bartender standing in front of me. Although I shouldn't, after all, I am a bail recovery agent. It's my job to get my skip, no matter the cost. Yet, I had been wondering lately. What was this job costing me? Yet, I had been wondering lately. What was this job costing me?”
― Miranda Parker, A Good Excuse to Be Bad

“An old western standoff had nothing on the looks that my mom and grandma were exchanging. A tumbleweed could have rolled through the kitchen and neither would have noticed.”
― Lani Woodland, Indelible

“It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.”
― David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough

“She and I had exchanged a few text messages, although they had been mostly to remind me just how pissed she’d be if I started anything with her asshole of a brother. The same asshole who had last night said, ‘If you ever hurt her, psycho Sid, I’ll kill you.’ Naturally, I’d replied by dangling him over the balcony until he begged me to pull him back up.

It had been kind of fun.” (Salem)”
― Suzanne Wright, Consumed

“He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called the cops he would kill every single one of them and I knew that he had the potential and the means to do it”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

“Mindfulness won’t ensure you’ll win an argument with your sister. Mindfulness won’t enable you to bypass your feelings of anger or hurt either. But it may help you see the conflict in a new way, one that allows you to break through old patterns.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“I knew, deep down, that I was different from my family. I knew just by looking in the mirror.”
― Alex Dalton, A View From The Mountain

“We're only human James, bound by flesh and blood to do the wrong thing." ~Lena Jefferson from The Other Sister”
― Cheri Paris Edwards

“In order to keep liking Nick (as opposed to loving him which was completely non-negotiable) Alice sometimes had to look at him obliquely or with her eyes half closed or through a pin hole on a piece of cardboard. Straight on would burn her retinas.”
― Carol Anshow

“So how long do I have to pack?”
― Don Darkes, 6692 Pisces the Sailfish

“I understood something that Brett wouldn't admit - that we were talking about family. And family is the ultimate trap, it's something you carry with you for life; the people you come from and the marks they leave on you.”
― Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

“When trans ideology comes to a family, it is like a bomb drops and relationships are decimated, the profound ripple effects spreading from the point of detonation.”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

“Behind every smile, there may hide a concealed agenda; not everyone who cheers for you genuinely celebrates your success.”
― Carlos Wallace, Life is not Complicated, You Are

“I held him close and felt an indescribable feeling of warmth and...love?”
― Emily Grace, River Of Sorrows

“The words had felt more like a sting than love, even in my seven-year-old heart. I remember glancing at Mom every time a word was given. She never broke stride. Not once.”
― Brian L. Tucker, Southern Kentucky and Oceans Far Away

“Through the trials and tribulations of married life, I've come to realize that true happiness and fulfillment come not from our spouses, but from our relationship with God. No matter the pains, obstacles, regrets, or challenges we face, let us release the burdens and focus on divine God. Let our spouses live their lives, and let us find joy and contentment in God's love and grace. This is the wisdom I've gained through my own experiences.”
― Shaila Touchton

“Could you still love someone across that vast universe of time space and mystery?”
― Holly Jackson

“At one stage in my life, I'd have given my left arm to hear from Mammy. Just one word, that's all. Something to let us know that she still loved us. That she still cared.”
― Alison Walsh, All That I Leave Behind: A powerful, heart-breaking story of family secrets

“She's my family and you're hers. That means we are, in some inexplicable way, connected.”
― Susan Mallery, For the Love of Summer: A Summer Beach Read

“The Involuntary Princeling by Stewart Stafford

The candle's blaze grows distant fast,
Quenched to an ember spark, unseen,
Carriage taken in larceny's grasp,
Darkness made far bank unclean.

Daubing a sovereign slogan,
In violet shadows unmasked,
A delinquent reunion reprieved,
A doggerel name outcast.

Trade winds howl to storming,
As fireballs 'neath seas seek to atone,
The red-crowned crest now stakes its claim,
On writhed Rosetta's key stone.

© Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford