“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”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”