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

I can get 400 pages down the road and still not know the answer. What I do know is that I have really examined every facet of the situation, and I may not have changed my opinion but I have definitely forced myself to explore why it's my opinion.

The only monsters I have ever known were men.

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up

Bleeding heart, he’d called her. Well. He should know. He’d been the first to rip it to pieces.

There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.

In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear.