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Life is wasted on the living.
Nathaniel Fisher Sr

Well, we're all wounded. We carry our wounds around with us through life, and eventually they kill us. Things happen that leave a mark in space, in time. In us.
Brenda Chenowith

The hardest part about my work is the fact that most people don't want a real relationship with God. Yeah, sure, they'll pray to a man nailed to a cross, but they'll – they'll ignore the gay kid who gets strung up, or the black man who gets dragged behind a car, or someone's mother living in a box.
Father Clark

You know what I find interesting? If you lose a spouse, you're called a widow or a widower. If you're a child and you lose your parents, then you're an orphan. But what's the word to describe a parent who loses a child? I guess that's just too fucking awful to even have a name.
Brenda Chenowith

I wouldn't change anything. If you change one thing, that changes everything. And some things are the way they should be.
Brenda Chenowith

You sit in such judgment of the world. How do you expect to ever be a part of it?
Olivier

You can't take a picture of this. It's already gone.
Nate Fisher

My arm is numb. Numb arm, nuh arm, n'arm narm!
Nate Fisher naming a trope.

David Fisher: I feel pretty bad, I led her on for years
Keith Charles: So what? Falling in love with a gay man is a rite of passage for girls, like us trying to sleep with women.
David (considering): I don't think that's true anymore, I think we were probably the last generation.

Claire Fisher (trying to take David's mind off the trauma of being carjacked) Well if it helps I had a disastrous homosexual experience of my own last night.
David Fisher (suddenly interested) Reeaaalllllyyyy?
Claire Fisher You'd think it would be easier, a set of familiar sex organs
David Fisher Oh honey if they're not yours they're all unfamiliar.

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