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“You know what, your imagination works faster than your mind.”
“it tooklosing himto finally findmyself.It tooklosing hima second timeto be sureof myself.thatwas myfirst actofself-love.”
“I had always been a boy in this place, and many of the trees and rocks and streams had been old men when I knew them. Some had died. All had changed. I knew that. I had changed the most.”
“It begins when hes still a man in a suit, doing the kinds of boring things that men in suits do. The things that no one writes about because they know that boys dont really have nightmares about cl...”
“A boy trying out a man's language.”
“I had never kissed a boy, had never even considered that I might enjoy such an unclean thing, until literature opened my eyes.”
“Kelli Farrell talks about the difference between girls and boys who struggle to get through high school: "Girls, especially those whose moms are head of household, get the message that men come and...”
“...as we are endowed. ...with rhetorics. ...none will deny. ...of innocence. ...towards scribbling. ...of love lines. ...and of lust. ...to what seems like male. ...to what seems like female. ...in...”
“What does a freelance researcher do? Researches things. He winks at me and helps lift my bike onto a cobblestone walkway. Its not an interesting or particularly sexy job. Nobody wants to date a per...”
“There are tales that rise like the early sun, breathe, and take on a life of their own. There are ones that flow quietly and effortlessly until time forsakes them, but there are others that fight u...”
“You are the sun, I try to say, You are the most important. You are the only light that's ever truly pierced my armor. You are the happiness and the spark and the one girl who never ran, who never c...”
“ remembered summer light, and the luminous inverted ghost of a boy with a parrot on his shoulder.”
“Something weird moved through me, a feeling of familiarity, and as I stood in front of my locker, I found myself thinking of the one bright thing in a past full of shadows and darkness.I thought ab...”
“I'm tired of hurting from the people who leave me. I'm tired of getting comfortable with others. I tell you everything and you leave. It's like you're take what is good in me and all that is left i...”
“That's the thing about hands, I love to hold hands because it brings comfort to me to feel I'm holding onto someone I love.”
“That's the thing about hands. I love to hold hands because it brings comfort to me to know and feel I'm holding onto the person I love.”
“The shadow raised its arm high in the air and I knew - I knew before I heard my name - that he'd found me again, keeper of the promise he couldn't make, the one I had marked with my blood and who h...”
“My nose is broken," I said. Damn that Dumbo. Made me self-conscious."My ankle's broken," he said."Then I'll come to you.”
“Boys will always be boys, he said. The relationship obviously wasnt meant to be. He told me I should trust that the break-up was for the best, even if I couldnt see that yet. As with every form of ...”
“Desires are what can most easily ruin us, lovely.”
