'When you kiss someone, your heart goes out to them, and when you're done kissing them your heart goes back in.'

'Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.'

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.''

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

'Divorce is when mommy and daddy yell at each other then they spread apart. Then they put up a 'for sale' sign in front of the house and they spread farther and farther apart until they can't come back ever again and it's very sad.' (teaching her 4-year old brother)