"This is your life... and you are the only person who can make it whatever you want it to be." (209)

"To think God loves the trees... but condemns that blossoming thing they do in the spring." (353)

"Everyday I would be grateful that no one who matters to me questions whether I am too masculine, too feminine, too open, too closed. Everyday I would be grateful for what I have, and that I can be who I am without judgement." (399)