Albert Camus Quotes

I'm endlessly fascinated with the ways families work and the ways they don't.

Patrick Wilson is my brother-in-law - we married sisters.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law.

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

Mothers-in-law do not make good house pets. Once I had the most wonderful dream -- I dreamed that mothers-in-law cost money and I couldn't afford one.

Still putting out the O'Reilly fires of me being a traitor and using Casey's name dishonorably, my in-laws sent out a press statement disagreeing with me in strong terms; which is totally okay with me, because they barely knew Casey. We have always been on separate sides of the fence politically and I have not spoken to them since the election when they supported the man who is responsible for Casey's death. The thing that matters to me is that our family - Casey's dad and my other 3 kids are on the same side of the fence that I am.

If there's anythin' on earth that can be more tryin' than any kind of relative, I don't know what it is, but relatives by marriage comes first - easy.

Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

Now, I have nothing to say against uncles in general. They are usually very excellent people, and very convenient to little boys and girls.

But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.

Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

Your relationship with your sister-in-law is hingeing on your brother's - or your sister-in-law's - ability to keep that relationship together.

Who hasn't had an argument with their mother-in-law?

I have a hard time expressing myself when I'm emotional, so my family has done this forever. We write each other letters if we're fighting or whatever. And my dad's a writer, but we write each other letters because we feel that it's easier to get out what you're truly saying if you write it down.

I remember going to friends' houses and being fascinated when they got into fights with their siblings.

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

This is so weird. They're your brother and aunt." "No, I understand. They're your family too." Rhys said. "They loved you and raised you. That's what family is, right?

Firequencher raised his hand. "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?

It's possible to overlook character flaws of in-laws for the simple reason that you feel neither responsible for them nor genetically implicated.

People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.