| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1cadf71 | My father used to say there are two kinds of people: the noticers and the noticed | family-relationships family-drama survival-story suspense | Lori Lansens | |
| 2a0a0e9 | Most people are as happy as other people decide they should be. | happy people social family-drama | Rebecca McNutt | |
| e5864b5 | But now I saw with fresh conviction that is was us, all of us, who were failing, and the hallmark of our failure was the way we ate with our heads down, hungrily, quickly, because there was nothing else to do at the table | family-drama | Jane Smiley |