102 quotes found
“I couldn't exactly storm away in anger. I'd just have to close my eyes and shut out the universe.”
“See, this is the way I see it. Not all anger is the same. Because there are different kids of anger. And you know what else - sometimes, anger is a virtue. As long as you're not making someone bleed.”
“I wanted to tell him not to cry anymore, tell him that what those boys did to that bird didnt matter. But I knew it did matter. It mattered to Dante. And, anyway, it didnt do any good to tell him n...”
“I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us.”
“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...”
“I thought of what my mom had said. "You talk like a man." It was easier to talk like a man than to be one.”
“But the thing is, I didn't make my friends happy and they didn't make me happy. All we did was get stoned out of our minds. That didn't have anything to do with happiness.”
“Dad? Dad, no. No. I can't. I can't. Why are you saying these things?""Because I can't stand watching all that loneliness that lives inside you.”
“The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more.”
“Im not a good kid. Yeah, look, Im just a piece of paper with the word sad and a bunch of cuss words written on it.A lousy piece of paper. Thats me.A piece of paper thats waiting to be torn up.”
“I always thought of men as being hardmaybe because I was hard. But there was a softness in Tom that betrayed his large masculine hands and his deep baritone voice. He knew something about love that...”
“We think there's a reason for everything, as if life was supposed to make sense. It's not exactly math. People aren't numbers. Everybody knows life doesn't make any sense at all, so we just better ...”
“I wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful.”
“Some boys... Are perfect shits. & other boys are very, very beautiful.”
“I wondered what it was like to feel whole, to not feel torn up or stunned out or wigged out or any of those things. I wondered what it was like to walk around the world looking up at the sky instea...”
“Id rather have a cup of coffee and a cigarette than live in all that honesty.”
“I hadn't even solved the mystery of my own body.”
“I wanted to close my eyes and let the silence swallow me whole.”
“I have this idea that the reason we have dreams is that we're thinking about things that we don't know we're thinking about-and those things, well, they sneak out of us in our dreams. Maybe we're l...”
“I guess I did miss Dante-even though I tried hard to not think about him. The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more.”
