RaeLynn Quotes

Families in real life don't tend to resolve things neatly.

I only saw my father twice a year. If I'd seen him all the time I'd probably have murdered him by now. He was very strict.

A lot of times, you try and please your biological family, and you can't please them.

My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.

My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her.

My relationship with my mom is really bad.

If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.

I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.

That's something that I struggled with - talking to my mother about some of the problems that I had.

unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.

I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings.

My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He had become so enraged. He told me never to come back, and that was all the severance it took.

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.

I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother.

Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama,' I run in the opposite direction.

I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

I never remember my parents having an argument.

My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material.

I have so many e-mails from people who are like, 'I never knew a family could be happy like this... My parents hate each other. I hate my brother. We fight all the time. I never wanted to have kids before I saw your family.'

My parents felt judged by me.

My father was kicked out of the National Front. He does whatever he wants. It doesn't concern me anymore... I don't talk to him, and I'm not responsible for him or his inadmissible remarks.

If you're in a family unit... and the boys are having a particularly hard time, the impact on the entire family is troublesome.

I still believe that a fight between two brothers should not destroy peace and harmony and bring trouble to the common man.

In every family, people fight, don't talk and then make amends.