“This skin cripples me. It always has. Kai Cheng Thom to -----, 2013 (age 22)”

“We don't know what it's like not to be in love with you. We loved you the moment you looked at us, held our hand, danced dirty, kissed us. We were lost in you way before we even met, before the tho...”

“My lips and eyes and heart were stinging when you kissed me in the dark. Jack Garton to Jennifer Hammer, 2008 (age 24)”

“it was not whim or wildness which made me go, but a sudden clear realization that tho you were the first man of importance to me, you could not be the last. Gwendolyn MacEwen to Milton Acorn, 1963...”

“This skin cripples me. It always has. — Kai Cheng Thom to -----, 2013 (age 22)”

“My lips and eyes and heart were stinging when you kissed me in the dark. — Jack Garton to Jennifer Hammer, 2008 (age 24)”

“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”

“Do you know what pain is, Cammie? Its thebodys physical response to imminent harm.It is the minds way of telling us to move ourhand off the stove or let go of the brokenglass.”

“A sad lesson that was mine to learn is that you can't lose what was never truly yours. Nor can you hold to things that simply do not wish to be held.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”