"These are the things you don’t say, even to someone you love."
- Johnny Rich
"Silent is an anagram of listen."
"The silence was pregnant with noise, with muted fury, with questions the father found too disgusting to frame and with answers to which the son was incapable of giving voice."
"The only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. Everything connects"
"Wouldn’t a no one do as well as a someone about whom nothing can be said?"
"Being gay is not just what I do, but who I am. It is part of how I choose to live my life even if I never chose."
"Even when I press against him his presence is too far away."
"Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly."
"Anyone can be a story. Everyone is."
"A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller."