Mazer, i don't want to keep dreaming these things. I'm afraid to sleep. I keep thinking of things i don't want to remember. My whole life keeps playing out as if i were a recorder and someone else wanted to watch the most terrible parts of my life

If anyone have intercourse with a pig or a dog, he shall die. If a man have intercourse with a horse or a mule, there is no punishment. But he shall not approach the king, and shall not become a priest... If a pig spring upon a man for intercourse, there is no punishment.

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

Take me home, he said silently to Graff. In my dream you said you loved me. Take me home

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.

There's no need to legalize gay marriage. I have plenty of gay friends who are committed couples; some of them call themselves married, some don't, but their friends treat them as married. Anybody who doesn't like it just doesn't hang out with them.