That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.

That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.

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

Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.

What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut you. That only if you'd felt such fullness could you really understand the ache of being empty.

There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I'll live in a world where people are judged by what they do instead of who they are. That happy endings don't have contingencies and conditions.