Family Disconnection Quotes

I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.

The entire time I was in Portland, which was the five years, I had absolutely no contact with any of my family.

Computers tend to separate us from each other - Mum's on the laptop, Dad's on the iPad, teenagers are on Facebook, toddlers are on the DS, and so on.

She has given birth to vagabonds. She is the keeper of all these names and numbers now, numbers she once knew by heart, numbers and addresses her children no longer remember.

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

My family has been deeply affected by the split of Korea, which divided it in half, basically, before I was born. There's no way to connect with my family now who are in North Korea because it's so isolated. We don't even know who is still there and who is alive, and if they are, what they are doing. Comedy is the only weapon I have to battle this totalitarianism.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.

One of my major regrets was that period in my life where I wasn't present in my kids' life. I was in another world.

I wish I had better contact with my family.

You see families at a restaurant and the kids are on the phone and the adults are on the phone. It's just a catastrophe.

The invisible carnage of the unf-ed wives and the children not being read to is just wafting out.

All too often, I'm sorry to say, I relegated my family to the cracks and margins.

Zooey said... It would be very nice to come home and be in the wrong house. To eat dinner with the wrong people by mistake, sleep in the wrong bed by mistake, and kiss everybody good-bye in the morning thinking they were your own family.