...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

Nothing exists without its opposite.

You can't judge Islam by those people any more than you can judge Christians by abortion clinic bombers or white separatists. Love turn to hate at the fringes of any belief system.

We get crazy when we can't make things be like the world tells us they are". She looked back out the window. "It was that way for me and your brother, I think. I mean, how could I have loved him that last year? I didn't even know who he was. He was way more attracted to drugs and bikers and that whole lifestyle than he was to me. But somebody told me that if you really loved somebody,you stayed with him no matter what. You had to fight for him." She laughe. "Hell, I was convinced.

...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.

I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know anything about.

But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.