“I was unable to deny my love for Jesus, but equally unable to make my love toward women disappear.”

“She noticed a large grease stain on the front of her coveralls as she stood up. A few half-hearted wipes told her it was a lost cause. That’s what she got for wearing her good coveralls for a teardown. What had possessed her to even do so? Brionie hadn’t noticed. It would take more than that to get her attention”

“There was no way to tell their mothers the truth and make them believe it, that hearts that loved boys and girls were no more reckless or easily won than any other heart. They loved who they loved. They broke how they broke. And the way it happened depended less on what was under their lovers’ clothes and more on what was wrapped inside their spirits. What secret halls and trapdoors their sounds held, and what each one hid and guarded.”

“It is no wonder lesbians love women.”

“If my God damns people for love but saves them for brutle warfare, then that is not the God I know or wish to worship.”

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

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

“Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature….”

“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 to keep the happiness alive.”

“Love is never wrong no matter what society says.”

“The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you’ve just told them.”

“I think God is a callous bitch not making me a lesbian. I’m deeply disappointed by my sexual interest in men.”

“God doesn’t like lesbians,” Grandma Huberman hised, throwing the magazine in the trash.Jennifer knew what lesbian meant, and she knew she probably was one. But she couldn’t understand why God would hold that against her or against Monica Mathers, who’d never started a war or killed anybody, and whose deadeye three-pointers were straight-up amazing. After all, hadn’t God made both of them? But people were like that, she’d noticed. They’d invoke Godly privilege at the weirdest of times and for the most stupid reasons.”