“Elijah is overwhelmed by the sheer fact of all the people who have walked over this very spot. As he watches Nikes and loafers glide past, he tries to fathom the feet of centuries ago. A person could stay in this same place his whole life and meet millions of people from all over the world. But instead, everyone moves on, and meets no one.”

“If you wanted to reassemble Elijah's afternoon, you could probably do it by stringing together all the photographs and all of the frames of videotape that he walks into. Always a passerby, he is immortalized and unknown.”

“There are hundreds of reasons for Daniel and meto be impossible. History has not been kindto two boys who love each other like we do.But putting that aside. And not even consideringthe fact that a hundred and fifty years ago,his family was in a small town in Russiaand my family was in a similarly small townin Ireland- I can't imagine they could haveimagined us here, together. Forgetting our gender,ignoring all the strange roads that led to usbeing in the same time and place, there is stillthe simple impossibility of love. That all of ourcontradicting securities and insecurities,interests and disinterests, beliefs and doubts,could somehow translate into this commonuncommon affection should be as impossible as walking to the moon. But instead, I love him.”

“Neophyte, n.There are millions upon millions of people who have been through this before-- why is it that no one can give my good advice?”

“For the Jesus Revolutionaries, the answer was clear: Jesus would not be out waging "preventative" wars. Jesus would not be withholding medicine from people who could not afford it. Jesus would not cast stones at people of races, sexual orientatons, or genders other than His own. Jesus would not condone the failing, viperous, scandalplagued hierarchy of some churches. Jesus would welcome everyone to his his table. He would love them, and he would find peace.”

“his train could've gotten stuck in a tunnel or something. it's not unheard of. he's coming from ohio after all. people in ohio are late all the time.”

“Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.”