“Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.”
“Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.”
“A family is a messy unwieldy thing bounded only by blood andbeneath all the embarrassmentaffection.”
“Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy”
“We aren't eccentric, we're not bizarre. To each other, we're as normal and nice as the smell of bread, we were just a family. In a family, even exaggerations make perfect sense; they are always logical exaggerations, nothing more.”
“Life wasn't meant to be perfect. It was messy and sometimes it was a disaster, but there was beauty in the messiness and there could be peace in the disaster.”