“People can change... no matter where they come from, no matter where they think they ought to go, people can make their own way.”

“We cry in our own rooms, remembering a man who will never be here again.The house creaks. Maybe it feels the weight of our grief, maybe the floorboards are buckling because the burden is too heavy.”

“Jade is my everything: my wings, my roots, my sky. I am in love with her.And she tried to kill me.Now that is some messed up shit right now.”

“ Wasting time is a stupid thing to do in this big ol' ugly world.”

“Love is a sliver of sunlight peeking through the darkness; a whisper of hope when all is lost.”

“Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.”

“The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”