That's the difference between family and friends. Family is always there, no matter what, even when it's not right next door. Which means that you'll find a way to keep the connection alive. Especially since you realize how important it is.

People want to believe that every marriage is perfect balance but it isn't. One person always loves more deeply than the other

There is nothing like love. You should try it.” Thibault shrugged. “Maybe one day.

We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward.

He was the kind of man everyone would fall in love with, even if they didn't want to.

...there are people who added goodness to the world and people who lived to destroy it.

She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He swore that it wouldn't and she believed him. But it only got worse after that, like when his dinner was cold, or when she mentioned that she'd visited with one of the neighbors who was walking by with his dog. She just chatted with him, but that night, her husband threw her into a mirror.