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"I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart."
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"The stars will live for me, if not anything else."

"In so many ways we are still in the dark ages, but there is light appearing over the horizon of choice and consciousness."

"Although I am far too frequently convinced otherwise, with God a dead-end is only the death of an end."

"Hope is the little bird that continues to sing the songs of possibilities in your heart when everything else says to give up."

"It is on the canvass of the darkest storms that the brightest rainbows are painted."
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"I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could."


"How many young men fear that there is a monster inside them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves. People are supposed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought."


"I'll be your family now," he says. "I love you," I say. (....)He stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms for stability as he considers his response. He frowns at me. "Say it again.""Tobias," I say, "I love you."


"Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle."


"I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free."


"At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet. I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free."
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