Sometimes friends make mistakes. Grievous ones that cry out for us to stay and prove we are true friends.

That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.

the best relationships--friendship and otherwise--tend to be those where you *can* say anything to the other person but you don't say *everything*.

[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.

Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal, down-dirty way. Some of our characters lose that, some stray from that, and some regain it.

There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.