“There are people like you and like me. We have bad things happen to us, and we survive them. We are sturdy. But with people like your friend, you must be exceptionally gentle, or they may break.”


“Either way, always maintain a compassionate stance toward yourself as God does. Self-contempt will never produce lasting, healing change in our lives, only love.”
― The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery
― The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise

“When the historian of queer experience attempts to document a queer past, there is often a gatekeeper, representing a straight present.”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House

“We must tell people what we have learned here. We must tell them that there is no pit so deep that He is not deeper still. They will listen to us, Corrie, because we have been here.”
― The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
― The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

“Places are never just places in a piece of writing. If they are, the author has failed. Setting is not inert. It is activated by point of view.”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House

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