“Having no room of my own to "take care of things" had begun to weigh on me. I wondered if storing up semen would have a health impact on me, positive or negative, like shinier hair or weight gain.”

“This is where we come," he said. Albie and I look at each other. We?Me and, you know.Albies eyes got wide. I really dont think I want to know about this. I surprised myself. I do, I said. I guess I...”

“Its hard to be different, Scarborough said. And perhaps the best answer is not to tolerate differences, not even to accept them. But to celebrate them. Maybe then those who are different would feel...”

“Why cant I just be bad? I asked, figuring my mom would have no idea what I was talking about.Well, thats easy, sweetie. You can be anything you want, but when you go against who you are inside, it ...”

“Do you know how you get the urge to clean your room, and its no big deal? But when your mom tells you that you have to clean your room, you don't want to? That's me, anyway.”

“Then I wondered if that was what this was, like a Brokeback Mountain thing. Wed sleep in the same bed for a year, and finally wed do it, but wed never talk about it, ever, and then Ben would get ma...”

“The heart was made to be broken.”

“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. Its his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”

“Was it hard?" I ask.Letting go?"Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.”