“The bonds of family can be wonderful but there is a time to know when to stand apart.”

“I saw them standing there pretending to be just friends, when all the time in the world could not pry them apart. ”

“You know how the bonds of family are, my lady... They cling as tightly as vines. And sometimes, like vines, they cling tightly enough to kill.”

“I have since wondered if a person can know how deep a thing goes without getting outside of it, without taking it apart, without, in fact, ruining it.”

“For there is no bond more lasting than that formed bythe mutual confidences of that magic time when youth is slipping fromthe sheath of childhood and beginning to wonder what lies for it beyondthose misty hills that bound the golden road.”

“I wonder-Did I peek through the veil impatiently, while you slowly forged the bonds that brought me to mortality? And do you now stand where I stodd yesterday, your cheeks against Heaven's curtain, and pray-Pray fervently for me to forge the bonds that bring us to eternity?”