Jane Rule

“The first thing I have to do is see, not judge.”

“If we don't have each other, we have nothing.”

“It's a terrible thing to be a passive victim of your own past.”

“The only real freedom is the right to be wrong.”

“In the desert of the heart, the thirsty look for water.”

“To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and shape words into a sentence that utterly saves one from utter despair.”

“Memory is a queer creature. It has a will of its own.”

“Homophobia is a form of terrible, unresolved envy.”

“A moral position is not a matter of private preference but of public behavior.”

“The vital relationship is not between marriage and the tax laws, but between loving people and their moral communities.”

“All of us have to learn to live with what we can't change.”

“The task of the writer is to make the world believable.”

“Love is a country, with closed borders.”

“If you're not a little bit afraid, you're not paying attention.”