I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.

Caro: "Bite me." Ruby: "I gave that up in kindergarten.

To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost.

Sometimes holding on was all you could do.

I might screw up, I might embarrass you, I might yell at you, but I will never, ever stop loving you. You're my first born. The first time I held you... I fell in love so hard it cracked my bones.

The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you were, everything you'll someday be, resides in the small, seemingly ordinary choices of everyday life.....Each decision seems as insignificant as a left turn on an unfamiliar road when you have no destination in mind. But the decisions accumulate until you realize one day that they've made you the man that you are.

Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner.