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“God bless us, every one!”
Meaning & context
Tiny Tim’s blessing widens goodwill beyond one household and turns a family scene into an inclusive wish for others.
Source details
A Christmas Carol; Tiny Tim’s blessing.
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Charles Dickens Quotes About Family
Browse 10 quotations connecting Charles Dickens with Family, with meanings, source notes and related themes.
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Sources represented here include Dombey and Son, A Christmas Carol, Sketches by Boz.
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“Oh Floy, take me home, and never leave me!”
Meaning & context
Paul’s appeal to Florence makes his sister and home inseparable sources of safety and affection during his decline, intensifying the novel’s sibling bond.
Source details
Dombey and Son, Chapter 16, Project Gutenberg #821. The words are associated with the dying child Paul and his sister Florence; they are fictional dialogue, not Dickens autobiography.
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“You will come home with me, Papa, and see my baby.”
Meaning & context
Florence’s invitation joins three generations in one simple act: bringing her father into her home to meet the child who helped prompt their reconciliation.
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Dombey and Son, Chapter 59, Project Gutenberg #821. Florence invites Mr Dombey to return with her and meet her son Paul.
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“We will teach our little child to love and honour you”
Meaning & context
Florence imagines family memory being deliberately carried forward, with a child taught affection and respect for the grandfather from whom she had been estranged.
Source details
Dombey and Son, Chapter 59, Project Gutenberg #821. Florence speaks to Mr Dombey about how she and Walter will raise their child.
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“I wish that we should know and trust each other, Florence.”
Meaning & context
Edith deliberately asks for mutual knowledge and trust with Florence before marriage joins their households, framing family relationship as something that must be built.
Source details
Dombey and Son, Chapter 30, Project Gutenberg #821. Edith speaks to Florence while inviting her into closer confidence.
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“Never let us be parted any more, Papa. Never let us be parted any more!”
Meaning & context
The repeated plea marks reconciliation as a commitment to renewed family presence after years in which pride and neglect kept father and daughter emotionally apart.
Source details
Dombey and Son, Chapter 59, Project Gutenberg #821. Florence speaks while embracing her father after returning to him.
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“You are dear to me, Florence. I did not think that anything could ever be so dear to me”
Meaning & context
Edith’s attachment to Florence becomes an unexpected form of family affection within a household otherwise marked by coldness, pride and strained marriage.
Source details
Dombey and Son, Chapter 35, Project Gutenberg #821. Edith speaks to Florence; the line belongs to their fictional relationship inside the Dombey household.
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“Papa! Dearest Papa! Pardon me, forgive me! I have come back to ask forgiveness on my knees.”
Meaning & context
Florence approaches her estranged father through humility and forgiveness, making reunion depend on restored relationship rather than on winning an argument about the past.
Source details
Dombey and Son, Chapter 59, Project Gutenberg #821. Florence returns to Mr Dombey after his collapse and asks for reconciliation.
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“When it was born, and when I knew how much I loved it, I knew what I had done in leaving you.”
Meaning & context
Becoming a parent changes Florence’s understanding of separation from her own father, allowing present maternal love to reshape how she interprets an older family wound.
Source details
Dombey and Son, Chapter 59, Project Gutenberg #821. Florence explains to Mr Dombey how the birth of her child affected her understanding of their estrangement.
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“There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.”
Meaning & context
Dickens treats Christmas as a socially charged name that can awaken affectionate memory, reconciliation and family feeling before any particular celebration or gift is described.
Source details
Sketches by Boz, “Characters,” Chapter II, “A Christmas Dinner,” verified against Project Gutenberg #882 and the scan-backed 1836 Volume I transcription on Wikisource. “There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas” begins the following paragraph, where Dickens describes old jealousies and family estrangements giving way to renewed social feeling and reconciliation. It is early Dickens narrator commentary about Christmas, memory and family relations rather than an empirical claim that holidays automatically repair conflict.
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