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How're we getting to King's Cross tomorrow, Dad?" asked Fred as they dug into a sumptuous pudding."T...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

I'm serious, Harry, don't go." But Harry only had one thought in his head, which was to get back in ...

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She was a very pretty woman. She had dark red hair and her eyes -- her eyes are just like mine, Harr...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Fred, you next," the plump woman said. "I'm not Fred, I'm George," said the boy. "Honestly, woman, y...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing...

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Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey.

My mother has a gap betweenher two front teeth. So does Daddy Gunnar.Each child in this family has t...

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Jacqueline WoodsonBrown Girl Dreaming

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by ...

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I never wanted to live in that place again, but if for some reason I was forced to live there again,...

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I relax by catching up with my friends and family. When I am at home in Ibiza, I find the contrast o...

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I'm quite British in the sense of not expressing my emotions much. I save it for my songs. If you as...

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The attorney general called and asked me if I was willing to be interviewed for FBI director. And th...

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Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend...

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We would not have been a successful family without my father and stepfather, who were working-class ...

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Their life is mysterious, it is like a forest; from far off it seems a unity, it can be comprehended...

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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

...And talking of the dear family party which would then be restored, of their mutual pursuits and c...

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Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individua...

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There are secrets in all families, you know.

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some ...

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Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some ...

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So long divided and so differently situated, the ties of blood were little more than nothing.

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Jane AustenMansfield Park

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

Between Barton and Delaford, there was that constant communication which strong family affection wou...

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Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons...

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When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little g...

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Play on lively, diversified sidewalks differs from virtually all other daily incidental play offered...

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Jane JacobsThe Death and Life of Great American Cities

The crux of our conflict lay in the fact that we each couldn't be who we wanted the other to be.

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Janet MockRedefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood

Do not expect too much from your child and she will grow in your love... But if you push her too muc...

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In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an abused chi...

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As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to w...

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In Hawaii, family showed itself in the way that my siblings never dared to call one another "half" a...

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Janet MockRedefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

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Jay McInerneyThe Last of the Savages

I think in London - and I don't wanna offend anybody in America, but this is a real statement - they...

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I didn't go to many movies. My mom would make a family outing and bring chicken in the theater. Smel...

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Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the...

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Adoption is outside. You act out what it feels like to be the one who doesn't belong. And you act it...

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Family time was very difficult when my girls were little, but I never missed a birthday; I was there...

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I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don...

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Your friend mourns your losses with you, because they experience them too. The truth is, no matter h...

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The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know...

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We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market pri...

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You can be in love and raise a family wonderfully by not being married, but actually, marriage does ...

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When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by...

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There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

There's no way that moving in with your parents is a sign that your life is on track.

I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family...

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Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million-dollar Stradiva...

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Almost any American can connect on some level to a family background of having come across some ocea...

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When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family....

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Education, family, character, intelligence, humility, okay? These are the things that make a culture...

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I wish I worried about my uncle's opinions, and had problems to work out with my mom. Hell, I'd sett...

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I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who...

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A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning....

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There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more ...

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My wife and I got engaged in New Hampshire at this lake house that her family's had forever, and it'...

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Of course the activists—not those whose thinking had become rigid, but those whose approach to revol...

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Joan DidionSlouching Towards Bethlehem

I hate housework! You make the beds you do the dishes - and six months later you have to start all ...

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I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Every...

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Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?"I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?

My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being ...

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Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a...

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The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had be...

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I used to wonder about the fake pictures that came in frames you buy at the store—ladies with smooth...

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Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking t...

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Jodi PicoultMy Sister's Keeper

You want to know what I want? I'm sick of being a guinea pig. I'm sick, but I'm never f*cking sick e...

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Jodi PicoultMy Sister's Keeper

Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

But even if every house looked identical-if all the furnishings were the same- it still wouldn't fee...

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No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You...

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Jodi PicoultSing You Home

If you live in each other's pockets long enough, you're related.

Eighteen and stupid happens to everyone, I guess. If you survive it, it's probably half luck, and ha...

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In this world, family is the final, most elemental unit of power. A small group, helplessly bound to...

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They had been Vince's brothers in a way, and Race was his son, and you couldn't drive a man's family...

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Eighteen and stupid happens to everyone, I guess. If you survive it, it's probably half luck, and ha...

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In this world, family is the final, most elemental unit of power. A small group, helplessly bound to...

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They had been Vince's brothers in a way, and Race was his son, and you couldn't drive a man's family...

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Every family has in fact a sacred character belonging to it, which may indeed be forgotten or disdai...

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John Angell JamesThe Family Monitor

Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.

Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, i...

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Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their ...

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I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's lik...

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Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy ...

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We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - bec...

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What can we do?" Mom asked again.I shrugged.But she kept asking, as if there were something she coul...

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Me: “I refuse to attend Support Group.”Mom: “One of the symptoms of depression is disinterest in act...

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I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best fr...

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The reason is obvious. You're my grandfather, okay. Like it or not, you're who you are and i'm who i...

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The way you remember or dream about your loved ones - the ones who are gone - you can't stop their e...

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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cann...

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Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, ...

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I am he As you are me And we are all together.

It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics, to self-discipline and respect for ...

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Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christ-like, servant ...

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John Piper (artist)This Momentary Marriage: A Parable of Permanence

Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christ-like, servant ...

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John Piper (artist)This Momentary Marriage: A Parable of Permanence

Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christ-like, servant ...

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John Piper (theologian)This Momentary Marriage: A Parable of Permanence

Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christ-like, servant ...

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John Piper (theologian)This Momentary Marriage: A Parable of Permanence

When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about m...

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