Quotes To Remember

||Chapter Eight|| The one with the wandering grandmothers

1. ''My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.'' -Ellen DeGeneres

2. "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." ―Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

3. "Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young." ―J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

4. "Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum." ―Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

5. "All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair." ―Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

6. "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." ―George Burns

7. "One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family." ―Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

8. "When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching — they are your family. " ―Jim Butcher

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

―Jay McInerney, The Last of the Savages

10. "That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable." 

― Deb Caletti