Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality.

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

If there's something as good as [him] in my life, I'm going to pay for it.

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

Any time you put on the mouthpiece of somebody that you're not, there's a professional responsibility to get it right. I did a great deal of research in both of those arenas.

Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.

I understand better than she'd imagine that history is indelible. You can mask it; you can patch it smooth and clear; but you always know what's hidden underneath.