"I think the essence of family is that you have to agree to it, and then supply, out of your imagination and capacity for loyalty, the contents of it."

-- Marilynne Robinson

#Family Quotes #Loyalty Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Sometimes the story takes you to places that you want to go and sometimes it takes you places you don't want to go.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“What an awful thing then, being there in our house together with our daughter gone, trying to be equal to so many sudden orders of sorrow, any one of which alone would have wrenched us from our fragile orbits around each other.”
“Every ending is also a beginning. We'll meet again, I promise.”
“America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of the cowboy movies was the nearest sheriff is 90 miles away, and so you had to pack a gun and defend yourself.”
“By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America.”
“Girls' hearts flourish in homes where they are seen and invited to become ever more themselves. Parents who enjoy their daughters are giving them and the world a great gift. Mothers in particular have the opportunity to offer encouragement to their daughters by inviting them into their feminine world and by treasuring their daughters' unique beauty.”

Source : John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2011). “Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.99, Thomas Nelson Inc
“I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.”
“I believe in the American theatre. I believe in its power to inform about the human condition, its power to heal ... its power to uncover the truths we wrestle from uncertain and sometimes unyielding realities.”

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