To be denied was like getting shut out of a Public Park.

We don’t have to talk about Zsadist. That’s okay. He’s the most interesting part of me.

I do not crave this" But he needed it before he became a danger to himself and others.

The sense that in his mother's view, he had let down his family just by being who he was... was a failure of acceptance that he was never going to get over. He just wanted to live, honestly and out front, with no apology. Like everyone else. To love who he loved, be who he was… but society had a different standard, and as he always feared, his parents were a part of that.

Love’em or hate’em, by blood or by heart, family was a kind of oxygen. Necessary for the living.

I always root for the monster.

I was dead until you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came...and I was awakened.