The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.

You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here.

...when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.

I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

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