I'm trying to find one that starts off talking about the whole horror that will happen during Thanksgiving but the family will forgive and forget because they're going to get together and do it all over again when Christmas comes around. In the meantime:
Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. ~George Bernard Shaw
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. ~Dodie Smith
Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining? ~Robert Brault
Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are. ~Marsha Norman
Friends are God's apology for relations. ~Hugh Kingsmill
There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
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