the relationship between people knot so easily, there needs to be a person skilled at working free the threads. Sometimes, though, the only way to extricate a tangle is to cut it out and start fresh.

To me gay rights is the last civil right that we have not granted in America and I think it's an enormous embarrassment.

You could only save someone that wanted to be saved; otherwise, you'd be be dragged down for the count, too.

if you don't get sick, you won't get well.

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.

It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you’re alone. It feels less like a wound, more like a poultice.