“I wanted to lay down my armor, my strength and my pain for just a minute and let someone hold me.”

“I think I grew up that night. It might have been Patrick that lost his virginity, but it was me that lost my innocence.”

“You are mine. Mine. I won’t let anyone touch you ever again. No one, you hear me? Not Martin, not any fucking man. No more, Benjamin. Are we clear? Do you understand me? No more!” ~Marcus”

“Pain is like rain, it covers your skin and soaks in bone-deep, but it eventually recedes and allows fresh things to grow.”

“Regret is the sound of the ghosts of our own making. I will live with mine until I die.”

“Every gay man out there has at least one man-crush in his past that totally shriveled his nads into raisins and sent him screaming off into the night.”

“It took a village to raise a child, and it took a rainbow of colors to make them feel at home and comfortable.”