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I’d live anywhere, – in one room, in the castle ruin right now – if it meant we could all just be together.

That’s the kind of shit you do for the people you love, even when you don’t want them to know. You don’t have to tell someone you love them. You scream it with your actions. See, you may say you don’t love him, but your actions speak louder then you ever could. So, put your bow down and just tell him. I’m sure it’ll be better received without a weapon in your hand.

There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we’re all your family. She stops now. Leans over me so that wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead.You still have a family, she whispers.

Nicholas Sparks

I never stopped loving you, Ronnie. And I never stopped thinking about you. Even if summers do come to an end.

Rebecca Addison

Ohana isn’t just your blood, Tess. It’s the family you choose for yourself. Family isn’t just the people who made you; it’s the people who love you.

Francisco X. Stork

My father looks at me the way he is looking at my mother in one of their wedding pictures: like he can’t believe that she is with him now and will be with him forever, that she has chosen to be with him out of all the men in the known world.

Elizabeth Rudnick

You and Sven and Sven. You’re my family. I like you and you like me and we all helped each other back there. So isn’t that family?

Bill Konigsberg

More and more these days, I’m realizing that I might be crazy, but I’m loved too. I don’t think I ever really knew that before, but I do now.

When your family dismisses you, like Lotto’s did, you create your own family

She would have liked to love. It was terrible to think she had never loved her son as a man. Sometimes her hands would wrestle together. They were supple, rather plump hands, broad and not yet dry. But wrestling like this together, they were papery and dried-up. Then she would force herself into some deliberate activity or speak tenderly to her good husband, offering him things to eat, and seeing to his clothes. She loved her husband. Even after the drudgery of love she could still love him. But sometimes she lay on her side and said, I have not loved him enough, not yet, he has not seen the evidence of love. It would have been simpler if she had been able to turn and point to the man their son, but she could not.

… the love which Kahu received from Koro Apirana was the sort that dropped off the edge of the table, like breadcrumbs after everybody else has had a big meal.

Then please promise me you won’t let go of the woman you’ve become. Do whatever it is you need to in order to be happy. You have people in your corner now. I can’t promise that everything with Rowan will work out, but what I can promise is that, no matter what, there are too many hands holding on to you to let the fall be as painful as it’s been in the past.