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“I was fifteen.I was bored.I was miserable.”
“I hadn't even solved the mystery of my own body.”
“There are worst things in life than kissing boys.”
“Try it again," I said. "Kiss me.""No," he said."Kis”
“How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?”
“The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea.”
“I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.”
“The day he came home from the hospital, he cried. I held him. I thought he would never stop.I knew that a part of him would never be the same.They cracked more than his ribs.”
“You can’t expect to go both ways when you’re driving on a one-way street.”
“It started to rain and we just sat. Sat and watched the rain in silence.”
“Ad we interviewing each other?Something like that.What position am I applying for?Best friend.I thought I already had the job.Don't be so sure, you arrogant son of a bitch.”
“Everyone was always becoming someone else.Sometimes, when you were older, you became someone younger. And me, I felt old. How can aguy who’s about to turn seventeen feel old?”
“I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life.”
“Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.”
“For the music to be over so soon. For the music to be over when it had just begun. That was really sad.”
“The problem is not that I don't love my mother and father. The problem is that I don't know how to love them.”
“Maybe all that silence about my brother did something to me. I think it did. Not talking can make a guy pretty lonely”
“One summer night I fell asleep hoping the world would be different when I woke. In the morning, when I opened my eyes, the world was the same.”
“I thought masturbating was embarassing. I didn't even know why. It just was. It was like having sex with yourself. Having sex with yourself was really weird. Autoeroticism.”
“Words could be like food - they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something.”
“Do you think it will always be this way?”“What?”“I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?”I wanted to tell him that the world would never belong to us. “I don't know,” I said....”
“He was still experimenting with kissing girls even though he said he'd rather be kissing boys. That's exactly what he said. I didn't know exactly what to think about that, but Dante was going to be...”
“So I was the son of a man who had Vietnam living inside him. Yeah I had all kinds of reasons for feeling sorry for myself. Being fifteen didn't help. Sometimes I thought that being fifteen was the ...”
“All I knew is that sometimes my father was sad. I hated that he was sad. It made me sad too. I didn't like sad.”
