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

“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”

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

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

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

“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.”

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