21 quotes found
“He kisses me back with a kiss like a smile.”
“The promise of a kiss will carry us forward.”
“My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.”
“We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home”
“I can tell from the glint in her eyes that shes at least an acquaintance of Dorothy.”
“We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment. ”
“But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn,...”
“Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.”
“I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten.It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VER...”
“I hate the phrase 'more than friends'," Joni told me one night not long ago. "It's such nonsense. When I'm going out with someone, we're not 'more than friends' - most of the time, we're not even f...”
“I find myself thinking back to something I saw on the local news about a year ago. A teen football player had died in a car accident. The cameras showed all his friends after the funeralthese big h...”
“In this space, in this moment, we are who we want to be. I am lucky, because for me that doesnt take much courage. But for others, it takes a world of bravery to make it to the clearing.”
“This is what a small victory feels like. It feels like a little surprise and a lot of relief. It makes the past feel lighter and the future seem even lighter than that, if only for a moment. It fee...”
“Tony knows the names of trees and birds. As we walk around, he points them out to me. I try to record them in my mind, but the information never holds. What matters to me is the emotional meaning o...”
“We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us ...”
“O Lord, as I walk through the valley of the shadow of doubt, at least let mewear a Walkman...”
“We are young and the night is young. We are in the middle of somewhere and we are feeling everything.”
“We could call you an ambisexual. A duosexual. ADo I really have to find a word for it? Kyle interrupts. Cant it just be what it is?Of course, I say, even though in the bigger world Im not so sure. ...”
“I once told him that the best way to break up a fight is to step between the two people and start singing ancient folk songs. But Id never heard of anyone actually doing such a thing.”
“I had never really thought of marriages as things that involved liking. I had just assumed this man-woman arrangement was yet another adult quirk, like flossing.”
