Family isnt about blood relationships, its about the meaning behind them. I relize now that sharing chromosoms is not the only way to having a family, its about the friendship behind it.

This is personal, she'd said. Real. This moment was too, even if you couldn't see it at first glance. It was fake on the outside, but so true within. You only had to look, really look to tell.

Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance.

Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.

And don't change for a guy, ever," Leah added. "If they're worthy, they'll like you just the way you are.

Events conspired to bring you back to where you'd been. It was what you did then that made all the difference: it was all about potential.

No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.