“...it isn’t things and proximity, or even blood that holds us all together. What makes a family is love and loyalty.”

“...it isn’t things and proximity, or even blood that holds us all together. What makes a family is love and loyalty.”

“It was a sickening, humbling, maddeningly powerless sensation this watching them and waiting for them to come to him. For the time they could be a family again. But Mickey did it like one’s tongue pointlessly finds a mouth sore over and over again, half to see if it was still there, half to see if it still hurt.”

“The truth is a community is as big or as small as your heart lets it be.”

“Kyle, you are a mellow dude...You can’t be with an agitator. And that’s what she is. An agitator. She’s a Jackson Pollock and you’re a Thomas Kinkade.”

“Skate, if it were possible to choose who we fall in love with, no one would ever get it done, because we’d all be chasing after this ideal person who doesn’t even exist.”

“...it isn’t things and proximity, or even blood that holds us all together. What makes a family is love and loyalty.”