James

“With friends, if you keep making an effort to reach out and you keep getting hurt, you eventually stop trying. But it's much harder to give up on family. Somewhere deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake over and over again.”
― Tori Spelling

“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. ”
― Jim Butcher

“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.”
― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

“When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.”
― John Grisham, The Testament