We’d make fewer mistakes if we didn’t have to wait for time and distance to give us clarity.

There was certainly more to him than.

Love and hate are complicated emotions,” Aiden said. “Sometimes they’re the same.

It’s not your name that’s important. It’s who you are. It’s living a life of truth, a life without fear.

You just have to have faith, child. The bad times will pass. There’s only good coming your way.

Okay, just be quiet for a second, would you?” He squatted down next to the baby and patted the baby’s head, which only seemed to make him – or was that her – more angry.

The monsters aren’t always in the closet or under the bed. Sometimes they’re right in front of you, only everyone thinks they’re the good guys.

I love him, and I hate him. I can’t help it. I’m sure he feels much the same way. We’ve shared some of the best days of our lives and some of the worst. We understand each other, and yet we don’t. We make each other laugh, and we make each other cry.

No one else can fight your battles for you. In the end we all stand alone. So when it comes your time to stand front and center, raise your chin high, look everyone straight in the eye and know in your heart that you’re up to the challenge.

It was always easier to believe the bad stuff people thought about you than the good.