Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice.

sometimes what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.

But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.

There is no formula to relationships.

The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.