“How wonderful to be understood, and never have to explain.”

“The only cure for grief is to grieve. The only cure for hurt is to hurt. Every tear is a tribute. Every tear is a memory, every memory is a treasure.”

“I want to work at a library someday," I said. "I want to spend every waking day of my adult life surrounded by books.”

“Many people think a trans woman’s deepest desire is to live in her true gender, but actually it is to always stand in good lighting.”

“Things will go wrong at times. You can't always control your attitude, approach, and response. You options are to complain or to look ahead and figure out how to make the situation better”

“You two. Even when you crash, you intertwine.”

“Don’t worry. When the time is right, you’ll meet your teacher. When you’re ready, some kind of magnetic energy will bring you together with your teacher.”

“Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an authoritative teaching but above all to a deep personal experience which is at once unique and yet shared by the whole Body of Christ, in the Spirit of Christ.”