The things you own, end up owning you.
– Tyler, Fight Club
You can be someone’s friend and have sex with them. The trick is you have to want their emotional and physical well-being more than you want to fuck them. If you cross that line and want sex more than their happiness, then you aren’t their friend. Their lover maybe, but not their friend.
– Laurell K. Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains
Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind — even if your voice shakes.
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1097763-my-wife-and-i-were-happy-for-twenty-year-then
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.