103 quotes found
“That was the first time I did coke.My body, it was electric. For the first time in my life I felt as if I had a real heart and a real body and I knew that there was this fire in me that could have ...”
“The thing about tears is that they can be as quiet as a cloud floating across the desert sky.”
“I mean, okay, let's say we're all going to get better. Let's just pretend we will. Fine. Where are we going to go after we get better? What are we going to do with all of our newfound healthy behav...”
“Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way of life.”
“He tried not to laugh, but he wasn't good at controlling all the laughter that lived inside of him.”
“The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.”
“I wonder if he’d been as beautiful as Dante. And I wondered why I thought that.”
“You know what the worst thing about adults is? ...They're not always adults. But that's what I like about them.”
“This was what was wrong with me. All this time I had been trying to figure out the secrets of the universe, the secrets of my own body, of my own heart. All of the answers had always been so close ...”
“I was ashamed of myself for being ashamed of myself. I didn't like feeling like that.”
“There are worst things in life than kissing boys.”
“When I was a boy, I used to wake up thinking that the world was ending.”
“Did you hear me, Zach? I care about you.” “Okay,” I said. “It’s okay with me that you care about me. But can we please not talk about it? Would that be okay with you?” “Yeah, that would be okay,” h...”
“The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.”
“Do you know what dead skin looks like when they take off a cast?That was my life, all that dead skin. It was strange to feel like the Ari I used to be. Except that wasn’t totally true. The Ari I us...”
“When I walked into the house, I went in search of one of my dad's bottles. Not that they were that hard to find. He hid bottles all over the house. I knew where they all were. That was one of my ho...”
“Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and ...”
“Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.”
“What is it with you and that book?"Rafael laughed. "We have a personal relationship.”
“Adam says I isolate. He is addicted to telling me that I spend too much time in my head. It’s an unhealthy behavior. Look, I don’t see how not bothering other people with your screwed-up vision of ...”
