It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

No," he said calmly, filled with purpose. he took her arms lightly in his hands and shook her. "I am not giving you up." Emily looked at him, and for just a moment he could read her thoughts. Melanie use to say they were like twins, with their own secret, silent language. in that instant, Chris felt her fear and her resignation, and the knotty pain of coming up against a brick wall again and again. She glanced away, and he could breathe again. "The thing is, Chris" Emily said, "it's not your choice.

it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.

People don’t just disappear. There’s always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There’s always a loose thread that starts to unravel.

But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete.

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