6 Quotes by Sara Taylor

I realized how much it must suck to be a parent. You devote everything to your kids, who just end up growing up and disliking you. I felt bad for them briefly, but at least they had each other. In that moment I decided I wouldn't have kids. I don't think I could handle the level of betrayal I'd feel once I realized they weren't interested in me anymore.

Whether or not these marriages are good is an issue. It is too simplistic to take something this church has wrestled with for 30 years and say it doesn't matter.

The only option Janie has, if you do not help her out today, is to leave this church. She cannot leave the ministry.

I would definitely call this a historic decision. A mainline denomination like the Presbyterian Church said for the first time that an acting minister has the right to perform same-sex marriages.

I realized how much it must suck to be a parent. You devote everything to your kids, who just end up growing up and disliking you. I felt bad for them briefly, but at least they had each other. In that moment I decided I wouldn’t have kids. I don’t think I could handle the level of betrayal I’d feel once I realized they weren’t interested in me anymore.

For a moment they lie there together, in their own tiny nucleus of heat and breath.