"I don’t want you to live in the prison of my thoughts. I’m the only one who should be living there."

"Happiness. What the hell did that mean? It had to be more than the absence of sadness."

I'd argue that happiness can't exist without sadness being around as well.

"A lot of things happened outside the world of words."

"Just read it as if you wrote it."

"But here we are, we’re in it, this world that does not want us, a world that will never love us, a world that would choose to destroy us rather than make a space for us even though there is more than enough room." 💔

"I know that all the gay activists are saying that silence equals death, but my silence, at least right now, equals my survival."

"I wonder if people like me ever get to know what peace is like."

"Sometimes we have to be able to speak for those who can’t. That takes a lot of courage."

"And I keep thinking that I wished the world would understand people like you and me. But we’re not the only ones the world doesn’t understand. I want people to care about me and care about you. But don’t we have to care too? Don’t we have to care about the Ricos and the Dannys? Don’t we have to care about people who aren’t treated like people?"

"We were both learning words and their meanings, and we were learning that the word 'friendship' wasn’t completely separate from the word 'love.'"

"People aren’t memories."

"We make up reasons why other people are less human than we are. We make up reasons and then we believe those reasons and then those reasons become true and they are true because now we believe they are facts and we even forget where it all started — with a reason we made up.’"

"It’s a beautiful thing to let the people you love see your pain."

"The earth does not know the word “exile.” Violence begins in the dark and stubborn riots of the human heart. The human heart is the source of all our hate — and all our love."

“How can we make them change if we’re not allowed to talk?” 💔