Phoebe T.

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

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
― Gary Snyder