Mark Millar Quotes

Everyone has hiccups in their families.

I have sister issues and parent issues and all sorts of things.

My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home.

Any person who says their family is perfectly functional is lying.

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

We all have our family issues from time to time.

I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.

My mom and I have always had issues.

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.

People feel very ashamed to admit that they have in-law problems. They think it's something petty. But it's not petty at all. It hits deep emotions.

It seemed like my father and I were always fighting. I know a lot of kids go through that with their families, but it was hard for me.

There were just a lot of things that happened between my mother and I, and I thought it would be easier if I lived with my grandmother.

I got into a lot of trouble. Maybe that's why my parents didn't really like me and I didn't blend in with my family. I was always the naughty one.

I moved out when I was 17 to get away from a pretty tough and difficult family environment.

Families that live out in the suburbs often make each other cry.

We have arguments [with my father] and we had a lot of arguments in the years when I was at Michigan.

A lot of people ask questions that they don't want to answer themselves, and if we're honest about the intimacy that we have with our parents, you wish them the best and you wish them the worst more than anybody else in the world. I think everyone has had a moment in their life where they wished a parent ill, and I think it's perhaps a very romantic idea that that doesn't happen.

My mother is a good woman - a very good woman - and I am, I think, not quite all criminality, but we do not pull together. I am a piece of machinery which, not understanding, my mother winds up the wrong way, setting all the wheels of my composition going in creaking discord.

From my perspective, most of my life has been dealing with the day-to-day, kitchen-to-bedroom-to-living-room-to-garage life with people. Most people are just trying to figure out how to love the people in their world, to love their God and to deal with some of these questions about God.

God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.

Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families.

My mother and I had a lot of distance between us emotionally, although, on the surface, most of the time, we appeared good and friendly, and all that. But I was a problem. I was a street kid.

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.

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