Jim Butcher Quotes

I like that there's no love as fierce as the love you feel for your family; that there's no one you feel more protective of than the very same people who can drive you crazy.

Inside the family, you can go from hate to passivity to extreme love within the same hour.

You can love and hate your family with equal measure, but the power of the bond you have to have with them, you can't really ever walk away.

Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they're driving you crazy. As much as they make you mad, interrupt you, annoy you, curse at you, try to control you, these are the people who know you the best and who love you.

The most important thing in convoluted families, I learnt as I wrote, is that the child feels loved. I knew from a young age that I was a problem which required constant solving; but I never felt unloved. I was lucky.

I loved my mother, but I don't like her.

I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family.

My mom won't let anyone treat me like a little princess.

The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.

Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.

What I am most grateful for is that neither of my fathers pushed the relationship; they just let things develop and didn't impose anything on me. They were both just there, emanating stability in a very unstable situation.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

I'm a bit of a mummy's boy.

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

My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was something lacking, even in my own home, some false conception of family relations, some incomplete ideal.

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

My children make me cry on a daily basis about everything. Tears of joy, tears of pain, tears of sadness - all the tears, all the time.

The women here are the ones that hold the families together. So if my mom were to be unhappy with me, in a way, it would be like I would have lost my entire family.

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

I know I will never be able to replace my parents, but over the years I have realized that you aren't able to choose your own family.

My family's support system is fantastic.

Every family goes through ups and downs. You may want a relationship with someone, which your family may not approve of but they don't stop loving you.

I have a lot of surrogate parents, but there's no one like your mother.

Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it.

I learn about the highs and lows of living with the same mother for your entire life, about how no one can make you angrier, but how you can't really love anyone more.