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“You're like Lady MacBeth without the murder.""Thank you. You have no idea how much of a compliment that is to me.”
“Watch it,' her mom snapped. 'Don't start a fight just because it's the easiest thing to do.”
“I don't want to lie about who I am, even if it doesn't matter. It's who I am. It's part of me.”
“If this were an indie movie, we'd start talking about the constellations," Solomon said, looking up at the stars.”
“Solomon had good days and he had bad days, but the good had far outnumbered the bad since Lisa and Clark had started coming around. Sometimes, though, they'd show up and he's look completely exhaus...”
“But at home, that same day he'd jumped into the fountain, he'd gotten so anxious, pacing around the living room listening to his parents try to calm him, that he suddenly just lost it completely an...”
“He was an astronaut without a suit, but he was still breathing.”
“The thing to know about my brother was that even though he was fifteen, he looked to be about the same age as me. Only, I'm not sure if that was because he looked older or I looked younger. I like ...”
“As smart as I am, it took a boy stuck in his house to teach me that sometimes it doesn't matter where you are at all. It only matters whos with you.”
“ Do they know? That you're gay? Why waste their time with it? It's not like it'll ever be an issue anyway. Yeah, but, it's who you are, right? I guess so, he said. I don't really know how to be a...”
“I'm sorry, Cullen. I really am. I know this sucks. But you're better off anyway. And you'll be fine. You needed me. Now someone else needs me.”
“She believed in herself maybe more than other people believed in God or the devil or Heaven or Hell.”
“And, long after Clark had gone home, Solomon stayed up wondering if everyone falls in love with someone who can't love them back.”
“We all get lots of people. And maybe we don’t always get to have them the exact way we want them, but if we can figure out a way to compromise, you know, then we can keep them all.”
“Death can surprise us. It can scare us. It can keep us up at night. But we’ve also learned the things that death cannot do. It cannot crush our hopes. It cannot take away the love and support of ou...”
“— Do they know? That you're gay?— Why waste their time with it? It's not like it'll ever be an issue anyway.— Yeah, but, it's who you are, right?— I guess so, — he said. — I don't really know how t...”
