When it came to life or death, or anything else important, the only one you could count on was yourself.

As long as we’re alive there is always hope.

Don’t you know that everything you do in life has consequences?

Time meant opportunity. After all, what more do we have than time? We measure it arbitrarily, but as we spend it, until it’s used up, it is called living.

There are those whose lives are linked to us by blood, those whom we choose to be a part of our lives, and those who are chosen by others and forced upon us. The symbiotic production of oxytocin endears some of them to us; the antithesis repels us.