“Maybe when you're young, you love people as much for their potential as for who they are right now. And if that's the case, what happens to love when time passes and that potential starts to shrivel and fade? Does love die with it?”

“Real life is just a never-ending string of compromises that you make in order to survive”

“Trip over love and you can get up, fall into love and you fall forever.j”

“You can't seek revenge then become obedient again. You can't pick and choose when you will and won't follow God. It's something that's done all the time or not at all.”

“This time they would find the path to love and to acceptance. This time, she would know and understand the secrets of his heart as well as those of her own.”

“Here's what is truly at the heart of wholeheartedness: Worthy now. Not if, not when, we're worthy of love and belonging now. Right this minute. As is.”

“No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.”