“gonna look real nice on your bootie!”

…I lived in different kinds of open relationships…

“You made us suffer, your father and me”

“He just lay there, propped up, staring at me”

“That was better than therapy”

“Sometimes all you need is a voice and a body”

“Watched my girlfriend scream in pain and puke all over the floor”

“a greater understanding of this widespread intolerance”

“The first girl I kissed was waiting for me in a closet”

“Peace is the anomaly in their lives”

“a tree had taken root in my uterus and grown leaves out of my eyeballs”

“what a sharp-tongued wit can do when yoked to a higher cause”

“devours his own children in hopes of wrestling the power back”

“It’s not all doom and gloom death, there’s a lot of really good times”

“but I had no sense of what “queer” was”

“People who are stalked usually know their stalkers”

“why does al-Assad choose to speak to the American people, to the world, through the Fox News channel?”

“why they are called toys instead of apparatuses or climax assistance objects”

…uncover unknowns that families keep safe…

“I spent those nine years trying to forget you”