I actually don't think of whiteness and heterosexuality as 'the norm'. Maybe there are people who still do but none of them are close friends of mine.

I think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking. —Lena

My favorite reader is one that revisits books and gets something new out of them each time.

Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might.

You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.

When you think of how a child experiences a series of events, it feels, for so long, like she's looking at everything from behind this glass and it's obscured.

You're a part of me...You're in my heart. Forever and always, all right? —D