I'm in love," he said hoarsely. "With someone else. That's why." Qhuinn (Lover Unleashed)

Come here. I need to hold on to you." She felt the same way. And when there was no distance between them, it was like coming home.

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.

Just don't go out fighting. I don't need to know where you're going, that's your biz. But if you get yourself killed, I got ninety-nine problems and you're the biggest one of them." Rehv to John

Sometimes the only way to know how far you'd come was to return to where you once had been.

Oh, the humanity.... It was a wonder Rhage hadn't blinded himself with all that pop culture.

Fear of change was a weakness