Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

I'm related to people I don't relate to.

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

She smiled, pulling the photo a little closer, and I wondered if I should ask her, too, the question for my project, get her definition. But as she ran a finger slowly across the faces, identifying each one, it occurred to me that maybe this was her answer. All those names, strung together like beads on a chain. Coming together, splitting apart, but still and always, a family. (page 289) ~Ruby

Strangers are an endangered species.

Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky.

God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.

As I don't know what life would be like without my Chaplin connections, I work with them. I'm just really happy it's a family I can be proud of; it's not as if I'm related to some Z-list celebrity.

My dad liked how January went with Jones. My sisters' names are Jina and Jacey Jones.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

A lot of my identity as an Aboriginal person is about family.

'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.

The Lakers had been home to me, unlike the home I had grown up and felt apart from.

My family in St. Louis brings me to my roots.

I have relatives in New York.

In a lot of my films, the biggest theme is family, making families out of those around you.

Well, I've always felt connected to the outsider.

Meeting someone who likes what I've made is like discovering a brother or sister.

Home, for me, is with the people who I really love - whether that's in England with my family, Ireland with my relatives, or Germany and Canada with my friends.

John David captured the 25-year-old essence of me very well. I'm proud to call him a Stallworth brother.

I am my family. I love my family.

Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to claim to know anyone after such a distance.

The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing.

Welcome to New York, where everybody's a stranger, and nobody is.

It is now. It is always now. Now is good. Now could be the best. My name is Catcher. My name was Catcher. My name...my name... I am... I am lost, I am found and then I am free and I am happy. When I jump over that edge, someone leaps with me, shoulder to shoulder. I smell kinship on him. Kinship is all. I'm not alone. Never alone. I land, earth below me, moon above. I am wolf. We are pack. And that is all I need.

He was full of the restless, dissatisfied energy that always seemed to move into his heart after he visited home these days. It had something to do with the knowledge that his parents’ house wasn’t truly home anymore — if it had ever been — and something to do with the realization that they hadn’t changed; he had.