Familial Love Quotes

“I am in an altogether new world now. I can think of nothing more wonderful. It is a real touch of all that heaven means.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

“This is the whole stupid thing about all these unblood relationships. They depend on people staying the same, standing in the same spot they were in over a decade ago, when they first met. Surely the reality is that connections between people aren't permanent, but fleeting and random, like a solar eclipse or clouds meeting in the sky. They exist in a constantly moving universe full of constantly moving objects.”
― Matt Haig, The Radleys

“You’re a lot braver than most of the people outside,” said Enrique. “None of them could build a bomb with their eyes closed and wander into a metal monster and still want to name it ‘David.’ Trust in yourself, Phoenix.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Silvered Serpents

“All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.”
― Sigmund Freud

“...somehow, the very errors and faults of one individual served to call out the higher excellencies in another, and so they re-acted upon each other, and the result of short discords was exceeding harmony and peace.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

“Moses loved his relatives quite openly and even helplessly . . . It was childish of him; he knew that. He could only sigh at himself, that he should be so undeveloped on that significant side of his nature.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog

“Much that we had appreciated about one another had been left unsaid. In humor, in life and in love, we had understood.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

“Did you come here alone, Kitten?'
'No, Maria is with me. She is my maid, and oh, I never knew how much she liked me until to-day, for she never seemed to like me at all! But- but she came to me when Sherry had gone away, and she said a piece out of the Bible, about Ruth and Naomi, in the most touching way, and she is in the hall now, with my baggage, for I could not carry anything besides my clock and the canary, and those I had to bring!'
Ferdy surveyed these two necessary adjuncts to a lady's baggage rather doubtfully. 'Dare say you're right,' he said. 'Very handsome timepiece.'
'Gil gave it to me for a wedding present,' Hero explained, her tears beginning to flow again. 'I have your bracelet too, and how could I bear to leave Gil's dear little canary? It is named after him! And Sherry- Sherry does not love it as I do, and perhaps he might give it away.'
'Quite right to bring it,' said Ferdy firmly. 'Company for you.”
― Georgette Heyer, Friday's Child

“Often, after the rest of my family had retired for the night, I took the boat, and passed many hours upon the water. Sometimes, with my sails set, I was carried by the wind: and sometimes, after rowing into the middle of the lake, I left the boat to pursue its own course, and gave way to my own miserable reflections. I was often tempted, when all was at peace around me, and I the only unquiet thing that wandered restless in a scene so beautiful and heavenly--if I except some bat, or the frogs, whose harsh and interrupted croaking was heard only when I approached the shore--often, I say, I was tempted to plunge into the silent lake, that the waters might close over me and my calamities for ever. But I was restrained, when I thought of the heroic and suffering Elizabeth, whom I tenderly loved, and whose existence was bound up in mine. I thought also of my father and surviving brother: should I by my base desertion leave them exposed and unprotected to the malice of the fiend whom I had let loose among them?”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

“She made Pyrrhus, and loved him more than Achilles.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“...familial love isn't guaranteed, and even when you have it, it doesn't always keep you safe.”
― Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne

“It’s an often repeated lie that familial bonds are the strongest. Some swear by them. Some claim an other-worldly connection with their siblings or nonsense of that order. These can be dismissed as flights of fancy. Artifices of civilization.

In the wild, animals often exhibit what we would perceive as familial love. Some wild cats will grow up nurtured by their mothers, surrounded by their siblings, but should one stray from the pack for too long and attempt to rejoin, it will be summarily eaten or maimed by its ‘family.’ It’s no longer a part of them. The blood connection is irrelevant, what matters is the perception of the group.

Conversely, there have been recorded instances of unfaithful wives giving birth to children from a man other than her husband. The father, oblivious to the indiscretion, loves the child as if it were his own. Would that love fade if he found out the truth?

Who do you love more, your brother or your best friend? What if your brother tried to kill you, who then? Here, then, is my twentieth truth: “Do not trust in blood, trust only in yourself." In the end, that is all you have.”
― C.M. Hayden, The Stars That Form Us

“There is only one true legitimacy, and it's bestowed by love, not male lineage.”
― Sally Beauman, Rebecca's Tale

“My mom's attitude was, "I choose you, kid. I brought you into this world, and I'm going to give you everything I never had." She poured herself into me.”
― Trevor Noah

“The love of a significant other is simply far too involuted; that of a daughter is pure, innocent, wonderful.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“The three of them and the five of us, we are as weather is upon the planet. I breathe them and they breathe me. Clouds and breezes, lightning strikes and claps of thunder, we are the land, the air, the motion of existence, confirmed by sound and light and change.”
― Laurie Perez, The Cosmos of Amie Martine

“It helped to realize that the words of prayers… can do their work in us even when we’re too numb to realize it. Because those words are meant to remind us of how we should be inclining our hearts. And those actions—they are God working, not us. Whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of it or not, He’s there. He’s present. He’s pouring out His grace on us.”
― Roseanna M. White, Shadowed Loyalty

“Alguien dijo una vez, no sé quién, que el SIDA es como la guerra, son los padres los que despiden a sus hijos.”
― antonio santa ana, Los ojos del perro siberiano

“Hidden behind a veil of velvet shadows pooling beneath low-hanging branches, Violet waited until Em had turned the corner of the path toward the sunlight, then collected the gifts. Wool black as night, glass like ice threaded on silk, and a jangle of pins the color of last autumn's leaves. She held each reverently, the potential of transformation shining in each. The girl had changed, her soft freckled face gaining the planes of an adult's and the sharp timbre of her laugh softening, transformed by the magic of the earthbound that couldn't touch Fae. But something of Fae remained in the girl-turned-woman, a thread binding them together as surely as blood might have. Violet smiled softly, pride in the girl she'd sent from Fae into her earthbound fate swelling like the bloom of magic.”
― Rowenna Miller, The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill

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

“His father smiles, all the lines in his face collapsing, but this time, the map they draw leads to a quiet joy.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Girl Who Grew Antlers

“All these years they've told each other that there were no secrets and no lies between them, but love was harder than that, and sometimes edits and omissions were a form of kindness.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Witch's Judgment