“It is a beautiful world for the people who get to play the fist.”

“This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.”

“I think of Lindsay in the bathroom of Rosalita’s, and wonder how many people are clutching secrets like little fists, like rocks sitting in the pits of their stomachs. All of them, maybe.”

“You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope, and without fear.I love you. Remember. They cannot take it.”

“We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the people who will disappear or forget us.”

“She is staring at me wide-eyed, willing me to understand: that people should be sacrificed to causes, that beauty can be built on the backs of the dead.”

“People need other people to feel things for them," she said. "It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself.”