“When you stand at the abyss, you fall to your knees and you fucking grab for any comfort, any little thing to keep it from swallowing you whole.”

“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”

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

“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.”

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