“Family sticks together no matter what happens.”

“Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.”

“You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life”

“We make families of our own, Travis whispered in my arms on the last night we spent together. It starts with you and me and then it spreads. And whatever happens, there’ll always be a part of me that’s part of you. No matter what.”

“You don't do that. You don't just leave your family. Sticking together... it's the only way to survive.”

“I tell the kids that, even in a childhood marked by despair and deprivation, I knew that no matter what happened, I still had my family, or at least the remnants of a family ripped apart by divorce and then glued back together in various odd arrangements through a series of ill- advised remarriages. It was good to know I had a solid foundation.”