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“Hermes gazed up at the stars. 'My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the Internet--”
― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

“Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“Hagrid, look what I’ve got for relatives!�� Harry said furiously. “Look at the Dursleys!��
“An excellent point,�� said Professor Dumbledore. “My own brother, Aberforth, was prosecuted for practicing inappropriate charms on a goat. It was all over the papers, but did Aberforth hide? No, he did not! He held his head high and went about his business as usual! Of course, I’m not entirely sure he can read, so that may not have been bravery. . . .”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Ask anyone and they'll most likely say their family is crazy, and if they don't say their family is crazy, their friends are crazy. That's because everyone is crazy after taking the mask off. People are most themselves when not really trying to fit in, when either alone or around those already closest to them, and that is crazy.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“A young lady's most natural ally is her sister although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean.”
― Anna Godbersen, Envy

“Judging Natalie as my mother had judged me was, I felt like telling her son, just my ass-backward way of showing love. I'd spent my life trying to translate that language, and now I realized I had come to speak it fluently. When was it that you realized the thread woven through your DNA carried the relationship deformities of your blood relatives as much as it did their diabetes and bone density? ”
― Alice Sebold, The Almost Moon

“When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House

“See, relations are people with the same blood. But family, that's different. Family is about who gives you hope, who gets involved. And earns the right for forgiveness. Or at least starts down the path.”
― Mike Chen, A Beginning at the End

“As a community, we still emphasized the importance of familial ties but finally understood that the definition of family wasn't about blood or even who or what you'd lost. It was about what gave you hope and who was willing to get involved.”
― Mike Chen, A Beginning at the End

“The one who lives with neighbors and relatives will learn to live with the gain of pains and the pain of gains”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Those people who are supposed to be the closest to you are not always that close.”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“Be wary to enter a house whose door is opened by a relative.”
― Mantaranjot Mangat, Plotless

“Perhaps she had exaggerated; people very often were wrong about their relatives.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“Not knowing the DNA we carry in our bodies, hearts, and minds. does not negate it. We are an accumulation of many people, even more so when unaware of it. Once aware, we can choose what to carry and what to relegate to history.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“Family was exhausting, and complicated, and everyone was their own person, which meant you had just as much chance of getting along with them as you did any stranger off the street. Just sharing blood wasn't enough to make someone proper family; she'd take Cook over most of her blood relatives, any day.”
― Beth Lincoln, A Dictionary of Scoundrels

“Be prepared to lose some relatives and friends during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
― Steven Magee

“Do not refuse to help your own relatives, if you so wish for them be a protective wall surrounding you.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Never refuse to help you own relatives, if you can meet the need.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“How tired Dabney is, of "genteel" conversation; of his mother, whose love for him is stifling as damp cotton batting, and her tedious relatives of whom not one is younger than she, and no one is near the age of her restless son.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, The Accursed

“Well, she is my most beloved and adored kinswoman, and for her sake I would commit most crimes.”
― John Buchan, The House of the Four Winds

“Do not refuse to help your relatives.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“ما هي بالفضيلة ان تحب قريبك نفسك ولكنها الفضيلة أن تجعل قريبك يحبك كنفسه”
― Mikhail Naimy, كرم على درب

“Do not harden your heart towards your relatives nor refuse to help your friends.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Florida withholding the number of dead bodies found by emergency response crews was cruel to those with missing relatives.”
― Steven Magee

“When you have watched someone from childhood, you know them. You know what they came with, even if you don’t like it. Young children don’t pretend to be something they are not. They don’t even know how to. They only know what they are.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“We don't choose friends or relatives in our life, we choose Instagram filters.”
― DR. POISON KING

“Och så länge han tänker på mig, finns jag.”
― Marc Levy

“Because there are people in our lives;
rare
unexpected
people
who don't just walk
beside us
through life;
they witness our lives too.
They hold our memories in their DNA.
So that when one body forgets,
the other is there
to push rewind,
to cue up the highlights reel
on a love story
that made it all
worth it.”
― Laekan Zea Kemp, An Appetite for Miracles

“I’m not responsible for my weird ancestors. Quite the reverse.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Brothers in Arms

“She envies the way he takes care of his mom, paying her bills and all. While I envy the loyalty shoe has always shown him, making it easy for him to do this.”
― Niedria D. Kenny