Broken Family Quotes

“The thing I miss most from home, is having a home.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Three teen daughters, Sarah, Zoe, and me, holding our tongues, hoping Father will speak, say something comforting, tell us our love will see us through. Anything to end the silence.”
― Michael Benzehabe, Persianality

“Making people happy makes me feel good. If anything, it gives me more energy for the people I care about.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Every time, he breaks your hearts. And every time, he expects me to pick up the pieces.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“I like things that are kind of falling apart," he admitted to another interviewer. "[Because] I come from a broken home, I guess. I like things that have been ignored or need to be put back together.”
― Barney Hoskyns, Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits

“What came next wasn't exactly silence, because although it was quiet, a thousand things were being said. I hated that part about an unhappy household--that feeling of being perched and listening, the way an animal must feel at night in the dark, assessing danger.”
― Deb Caletti, Wild Roses

“Christina died of a stroke in the fall of 1971, at the age of sixty-one.
June watched the nurses take her mother's body away. Standing there in the hospital, June felt like she'd been caught in an undertow.
How had she ended up here?
One woman all alone, with four kids, and a restaurant she had never wanted.
The day after the funeral, June took the kids to school. She dropped Kit off at the elementary building and then drove Nina, Jay, and Hud to junior high.
When they pulled into the drop-off circle, Jay and Hud took off. But Nina turned back, put her hand on the door handle, and looked at her mother.
'Are you sure you're OK?' Nina asked. 'I could stay home. Help you at the restaurant.'
'No, honey,' June said, taking her daughter's hand. 'If you feel up for going to school, then that's where you should be.'
'OK,' Nina said. 'But if you need me, come get me.'
'How about we think of it the other way around?' June said, smiling. 'If you need me, have the office call me.'
Nina smiled. 'OK'
June felt herself about to cry and so she put her sunglasses over her eyes and pulled out of the parking lot. She drove, with the window down, to Pacific Fish. She pulled in and put on the parking brake. She took a deep breath. She got out of the car and stood there, staring up at the restaurant with a sense of all that she had inherited. It was hers now, whatever that meant.
She lit a cigarette.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“I wanted to forgive my mom and my dad so badly for the deep hurt they caused, the fear their broken marriage invoked in me, but I also didn’t want to pretend anymore. Pretending is exhausting.”
― Natalie Brenner, This Undeserved Life: Uncovering The Gifts of Grief and The Fullness of Life

“Lots of things aren't true, but it doesn't stop people from believing them.”
― Kami Garcia, The Lovely Reckless

“Broken homes are fractured fairytales”
― Nanette L. Avery

“Es complicado ver cómo tus padres dejan de quererse poco a poco. Cómo hacen vidas separadas, cómo se desprecian en ocasiones y cómo se gritan cuando creen que nadie los escucha.”
― Yanira Garcia, Estúpidamente encantador