empressmcbride:

Your first family is your blood family and you always be true to
that. That means something. But there’s another family and that’s the
kind you go out and find. Maybe even by accident sometimes. And they’re
as much blood as your first family. Maybe more so, because they don’t
have to look out for you and they don’t have to love you. They choose
to. – Dennis Lehane, The Given Day