“Big brothers are the ones who are supposed to pull their punches. Little sisters—well, we should be ableto hit as hard as we like, shouldn’t we?”

“Brothers and sisters we are like one thing,like a soil filled with specialities such as caring and fraternity”

“Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law, for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal, as well.”

“We are one now, little brother, you and I," Sebastian said. "We are one.”

“Do you know why the big brother is born first? It’s to protect the little brothers and sisters that come after him. A brother telling his sister, "I’ll kill you"... You never, ever say something like that.”

“Where do you come from?"...This is the number one most-asked question in all of South Carolina. We want to know if you are one of us, if your cousin knows our cousin, if your little sister went to school with our big brother, if you go to the same Baptist church as our ex-boss. We are looking for ways our stories fit together.”