"When families died, I became this furniture." (pg. 18)

"I grew up gay in the Bible Belt; I can only begin to imagine what it must have been like during the Third Reich." (pg. 19)

"Did you know that nature has dared to play a joke on us? You should've been born a girl and I should've been a man!" (pg. 23)

"You are teaching me a history I never knew I had." (pg. 28)

"And it was spring! And the birds were singing in the trees! And it was an awful war." (pg. 35)

"'Be as smart as the snakes; it's in the Bible.' She said, 'Never forget that you are living in the lion's den. Sometimes, you must howl with the wolves."' (pg. 44)

"Complicity in this country should always be treated as a criminal act." (pg. 66)

"For me, there was no choice." (pg. 67)

"An old friend of mine heard...