“If you're not okay, you might as well not pretend you are, especially ...” — Glennon Doyle Melton Quote

“If you're not okay, you might as well not pretend you are, especially since life has a way of holding us down until we utter that magic word: help! That's when angels rush to your side.”

“If no pain, then no love. If no darkness, no light. If no risk, then no reward. It's all or nothing. In this damn world, it's all or nothing.”

“I used to choose friends based on similarity in age and life stage, but I've learned that those were the wrong criteria. Trying to live life exclusively alongside others our own age is like attempting to climb Mt. Everest without a Sherpa. It's a little dangerous.”

“I spent two summers managing the Midland Angels.”

“I'm in California a lot; I go overseas sometimes and I meet more Hells Angels than other Angels do.”

“Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.”