“What's the rule for fighting? Hit the soft parts with your hand and the hard parts with a utensil?”

“That's part of being gay, you know. It's not just who you want in bed. It's who your emotional relationships are with the other twenty-three hours of the day, whose arms you want around you when life hands you shit.”

“Violence is about the attacker, not the victim. If you weren’t there, your attacker would have chosen some other victim. You are all real, good, and valuable people and you are entitled to be safe. And you are allowed to fight back, run, scream, get help or do whatever it takes to be safe.”

“When he went into that bar and saw Tony there with somebody, his head close to a handsome blond one, his hand on the man’s arm, Mac had been so…jealous.”

“Ian willed all his energy, all his strength through that touch and into Chris. Take it, take everything, babe. I'm yours.”

“Sometimes when you live with one man for more than half your life, you stop really seeing him. Not stop loving him. That center-of-my-heart kind of love doesn't go away. But really paying attention gets submerged in the stupid details of day to day life.”

“The whole room said, "Admire without touching anything and then get out.”