“You had to be willing to fight in order for a love story to last a life time.”

“We never know when our last day on earth will be. So, love with full sincerity, believe with true faith, and hope with all of your might. Better to have lived in truth and discovered life, than to ...”

“Together, in that room, our childhood notions of love melted away. We discovered love was not a fairytale. Sometimes there were no happy endings, and when there were, you needed to work like hell t...”

“Love is a wild fire that cannot be contained by any mere element known to man.”

“For the first time in my life, I said the words, I need a drink.”

“So, let me get this straight-- You want me to stop being a lesbian and being attracted to women because it is a 'sin'? Last time I checked, when you lie you are sinning. Sure, I could tell you I am...”

“In a natural environment, nature controls the breeding cycles. In the man-made environment, abnormal environmental conditions control the unnatural breeding cycles.”

“One day I'm a normal person with a normal life, he said. The next I'm standing on a street corner in Madrid with a secret phone and a hole in my arm and I'm bleeding all over, hoping I don't get ar...”

“It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.”

“A perfectly normal person is rare in our civilization.”

“Was there even such a thing as normall? People had terrible things behing their faces sometimes. He knew that now.”

“Normalcy was declared. (Normalcy was always a declaration.)”