We Are Family Quotes

“I can see the way he looks at you. Dad never looked at you like that. Like you’re some beautiful, rare species of butterfly and he can’t believe you’ve landed on his arm. He’s going to stop everything and stay completely still in the hope that you stay for a few seconds longer. And even if you do fly away, it will still have been the most amazing thing that ever happened to him.”
― Beth Moran, We Are Family

“It’s like the worst, horrible, scariest times only give more opportunities for people to show love and kindness.”
― Beth Moran, We Are Family

“She could”
― Beth Moran, We Are Family

“I had been bedazzled by those sharp, sapphire eyes. Blinded to the fact that they had looked so long at me and ignored the mother in distress. I should have worn sunglasses. I should have blinked. I should have turned away.”
― Beth Moran, We Are Family

“That I had wasted fifteen years allowing my brain to rot, my creative talents to fester and my beauty to hide under a thick, scratchy blanket of self-doubt and pathetic apathy. The truth was, I had abandoned everything my mother had taught me and spent my entire adult life settling and making do. I had not strived, fought, adventured, embraced, been inspiring or inspired. I had barely laughed. Come on, Ruth. You can waste a whole load more years lamenting the lost ones, or make darn sure you don’t waste another second of the ones you have left. For pity’s sake. You’ve cried enough.”
― Beth Moran, We Are Family

“Some people are fire-breathing dragons. They burn to a frazzle anyone and anything around them. We are better off keeping these people out of our lives.”
― Beth Moran, We Are Family

“I did not doubt for one second that my mother had willed me home with the unbreakable force of her love for me. Even stronger than my many attempts to shut it out.”
― Beth Moran, We Are Family