Things, and people, were always more beautiful when you were afraid to lose them.

Is there a reason you look like you want to murder me?"
"Not particularly. You have that effect on people.

Family is always a mirror. You can hide from other people, you can even hide from yourself, but your family is going to reflect what you’re doing right back at you.

Dreams shape the kind of human beings we become. Not having a dream gave me a smaller future and made me a smaller person.

It doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in them.

But the people who mattered were the people you chose instead of the people who were yours by an accident of birth. Real family was heart as much as, if not more than, blood.