We ruined ourselves-I have never honestly thought that we ruined each other. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.

the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.