“Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious. ”

“All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, and when it comes to the Holiday Season, happy families can abruptly become unhappy and unhappy families can, to their great alarm, be happy”

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

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

“Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze.”

“There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.”