You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.

Hopefully, more and more people will come to understand that a child who's "different from" is not one who is "lesser than."

Dead isn’t angels or ghosts. It’s a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a body so that they can return to their most elemental stage.

a guardian ad litem... GAL is appointed by a court to be a child's advocate during legal proceedings that involve a minor. You don't have to be a lawyer to be trained as a GAL, but you have to have a moral compass and a heart. Which, actually probably renders most lawyers unqualified for the job.

Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.

You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were.

Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally--break them apart?