Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.

Not all men are destined for greatness," I reminded him. "Are you sure, Fitz? Are you sure? What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine. Why should not a mother say to herself, if I raise this child aright, if I love and care for her, she shall live a life that brings joy to those about her, and thus I have changed the world? Why should not the farmer that plants a seed say to his neighbor, this seed I plant today will feed someone, and that is how I changed the world today?

Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it. - Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb

It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.

Cats talk to whomever they please.