Your life could be taken from you at any moment. Between AIDS and the violence against gay people that was so prevalent back then, you really didn't feel like you were living in the United States of America, in a… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
“Life's cheap out here, Daniel. With a little budgeting I can get by till you go off to college." "And then?" My dad reached for whatever he was drinking that day. "There don't always have to be a then." He… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
Your life could be taken from you at any moment. Between AIDS and the violence against gay people that was so prevalent back then,… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
Who cares what the state thinks about your relationship? They're giving you tax breaks and this and that - it's just nonsense. You want… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
Because gay people were so much more visible, violence against gays was more common and reported on. But they were definitely related to each… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
“You are -" she stopped fanning long enough to push the glasses up her nose - "Sprout Bradford?" I thought it was a little… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
I always hoped that I would settle down with someone. Marriage, I could really give two shits about, as an institution, but it makes… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
I came out after safe sex was invented and I always practiced safe sex. Except for when I lost my virginity. — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
“Children," Mrs. Oakenfeld sighed. "I do not want you to be good to avoid being punished. I do not want you to be good… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad. — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we think we’re protecting ourselves, we’re really hurting ourselves. And sometimes the people around us too. — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
“Drift House: Susan's response to Queen Octavia's sarcasm in regards to fading memories..."But we pass our memories on," she insisted. "I mean, from one… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
“People who shop at Barnes and Noble voted Ulysses the best novel of the last century, and who's to tell them different? There was… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
