“Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.”

“After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?”

“He had awoken too late for happiness, but not for strength, and could feel an austere joy, as of a warrior who is homeless but stands fully armed.”

“They must live outside class, without relations or money; they must work and stick to each other till death. But England belonged to them. That, besides companionship, was their reward. Her air and...”

“There was something better in life than this rubbish, if only he could get to itlovenobilitybig spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of...”

“People turned out to be alive. Hitherto he had supposed that they were what he pretended to be - flat pieces of cardboard stamped with a conventional design there came by no process of reason a con...”

“Gone now was the tease. Gone was the lesson on the how's and why's. Now came the needThe need to finish, the need to come, and the need to be part of the other person.”

“Whatever the dangers in sex, gay men's innate drive to make love to other men corrects, redeems, and intervenes on a world gone mad with man-to-man violence.”

“I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.”

“Soon enough, Miner stopped caring who was watching - for a brief time, he and Ennek were a universe of two.”

“We dont hide crazy, I said. We put it on the porch and let it entertain the neighbors.”

“Now wait a second..." Kenneth butted in."Yeah, we haven't asked you the questions yet," Brandon finished for Kenneth."Yeah, like what are your intentions toward our little Ryan," Patrick added, smi...”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”