Aja Naomi King Quotes

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

Everyone has hiccups in their families.

Every family is dysfunctional.

When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.

Families are the deepest, most screwed up relationships that we have.

Families just have so many secrets and dysfunctions.

I came from a broken family.

I can understand a family that's imploding. I have experience of that in my own life.

Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. It was pretty, pretty dysfunctional, and whose isn't?

My family's messed up, for real.

I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.

Stresses in a marriage and in family life, sometimes they're prompted by whatever is going on in the wider world as well as what's going on behind your door.

Most of us have grown up, you know, I think there are very few people who have grown up in a home that was, like, super normal. You know, we all have dispositions because maybe you didn't have a mom or you didn't have a dad, maybe your mom died early or maybe mom and dad argued or they got a divorce or who knows? You have issues that maybe you've started younger or maybe you have your own issues because you have them.

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

If you're lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you're someone who's got a family that's all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that's a very sad place to be.

We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how to be parents. Faults are made and damage is done, whether it's conscious or not. Everyone's got their own 'stuff,' their own issues, and their own anger at Mom and Dad. That is what family is. Family is almost naturally dysfunctional.

I don't know that anyone comes from a truly functional family.

Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child.

Writers will happen in the best of families.

There's actually 14 in our family, but we disowned the others.

I've got a string of disastrous relationships behind me. I don't think I'm an easy person to live with.

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

A lot of my YA novels are about family problems.

Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.

I've got a lot of issues. I've got a whole lot of daddy issues.