“I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.”
“The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.”
“You know the definition of a dysfunctional family, don't you? It's any family with more than one member in it.”
“A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart.”
“A family is like a set of gears, when one goes missing, the other gears don't function as well.”
“Nut shrugged. "Set had always been Set, for better or worse. But he is still part of our family. It is difficult to lose any member of your family . . . is it not?”