# Quote — John Hoyer Updike, Rabbit Remembered

> Family occasions have always given Janice some pain, assembling like a grim jury these people to whom we owe something, first our parents and elders and then our children and their children. One of the things she and Harry secretly had in common, beneath all their troubles, was dislike of all that, these expected ceremonies.

- Author: [John Hoyer Updike](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike.md)
- Book: [Rabbit Remembered](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-remembered.md)
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- Topics: [family](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/family.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-remembered/family-occasions-have
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## More from this book

> Like Ronnie said, we're alone. All we have is family, for what it's worth.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-remembered/like-ronnie-said.md)

Topics: [loneliness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness.md), [family](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/family.md)

> [Nelson, to Annabelle] "The misery of the world," he says, reaching into himself to overcome her resistance. "That's what I kept thinking during my group this morning – the pity of everything, all of us, these confused souls trying so pathetically hard to break out of the fog – to see through our compulsions, our needs as they chew us up..."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-remembered/nelson-to-annabelle.md)

Topics: [suffering](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering.md), [compassion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/compassion.md)

> Who would have thought that the Internet, that's supposed to knit the world into a shining tyranny-proof ball, would be so grubbily adolescent?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-remembered/who-would-have.md)

Topics: [the internet](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-internet.md)