Inherited Traits Quotes

“After a certain age, and even if we develop in quite different ways, the more we become ourselves, the more our family traits are accentuated.”
― Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah

“As he grew, the young Prince became very dear to the Spider Mage. He had his mother's charm and grace, without her volatile nature. He had his father's intellect, without his anger and sullenness. And he had a kind and loving heart, which longed for one thing only: for his parents to love each other, as he loved them both.”
― Joanne Harris, The Moonlight Market

“What’s bred in the bone, Admits no hope of cure.”
― Philip Massinger, The City-Madam: A Comedie, as It Was Acted at the Private House in Black Friers with Great Applause

“...I had the feeling that Gregorio was everywhere and nowhere, that he was a vaporous presence, as if he hadn't died altogether and was perhaps not outside of me, but inside of me, not in any tangible sense but not in a merely spiritual one either.

We like to think that ghosts inhabit old houses and dark corners, but we too in our body and soul become these very things: an old house, a dark corner, a storehouse for the memories of the people who preceded us and whose rest we eventually decided to disturb.”
― Renato Cisneros