Michael Lowenthal has written a big-hearted and wise book about familial love in all its richness and complexity. Votes: 3
We had idyllic summer holidays, building sandcastles with my father on the beach at Bridlington. It might sound strange, but I think that secure cocoon of familial love was so nourishing, it gave me the strength to live life on my own. Votes: 3
Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens. Votes: 1
Snow falling softly on lashes of eyes you love, and a cold cheek growing warm next to your own in hushed dark familial December. Votes: 0
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Votes: 7 Ann Landers