A family is a collection of strangers trapped in a web of DNA and forced to cope.

As your older brother, it's my sacred duty to save you from yourself." She brings her fists down on the table, making all the dinner plates jump. "The ONLY reason you're fifteen minutes older than me is because you cut in front of the line, as usual!

When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things.

You don’t just go to somebody and say, ‘I’m a better person because you’re in my head.

He does not deserve this. He has done many things, not all good, but he does not deserve this. And he never did get his priest.

Should I push him or should I throw him?" Howie asks. "Do what comes naturally," I yelled back. "I don't know," he says. "This is a very unnatural thing.

Sometimes, though, you make a pact with yourself. I'll pretend there's nothing wrong if you pretend there's nothing wrong. It's called denial, and it's one of the strongest pacts in the world. Just ask all those people who were still drinking champagne while the Titanic went down.