I want to live life on my own terms. But I'm Mexican, so mi familia is always there to guide me in everything I do, whether I want them to or not. Well, "guide" is too weak a word. "Dictate" is more like it.

Love isn't about honesty. It's about protecting the people you love from things that will hurt them.

If you let him go and he doesn't come back to you, he wasn't yours to begin with. It's a lesson learned in first grade

Who knew Lenny was an encyclopedia for useless information?

You own a piece of me," he murmurs as he holds me afterward. "Good," I tell him. "And just so you know… I'm never giving it back.

It's as if I'm taking away his pain and he's taking away mine.

...there's no rule book or game plan when it comes to the grim realities of our lives.