Safer than we are.” I told Franny. “Safer than love.” “let me tell ya kid,” Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. “Everything’s safer than love.

but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.

I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.

People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.

…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.

We invent what we love and what we fear.

He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say.