“This is what we had become, after the first symbiotic year of our living together: a couple who needed another couple to be around.”

“About their wedding on a beach of Nantucket, after nearly 50 years together as a couple: "After years of being who we truly were only in the privacy of our homes or with a few friends, we were out in the world, under the sky, no longer pretending.” - Norman Sunshine, co-author, Double Life”

“A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?”

“The aim of a PhD's to ensure that no one, including your advisor, understands what you're doing after the first couple of years.”

“But who can say why two people become a couple, that small principality of mutual protection and regard? Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points.”

“Sometimes we are outright rude when we interact with people. We meet a gay guy or a couple living together, and we think we have the obligation and right to warn them what God thinks about their sexuality on our first meeting. As if their sex life is the first thing on God’s agenda.It’s not.Love is. Grace is. Mercy is. Jesus is.”