What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.

When I say, "Be my lover", I don't mean, "Let's have an affair." I don't mean "Sleep with me." I don't mean, "Be my secret." I want us to go back down to that root. I want you to be the one who loves me. I want to be the one who loves you.

It's you. You deserve this. There is a reason this is happening to you.

She is my first and only love. Most people know that their first love will not be their only love. But for me, she is both.

It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.

Every time you love someone, you put not just your faith in them, but your faith in everything to the test.

But if I didn’t want to be alone, then why didn’t I want to be with anyone else?