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“This is our big chance to see what people think of us. The real us. We have to show em there's nothing to be afraid of. If we don't get over our fears, they never will.”
“Denying what you are didn't keep people from knowing what you are.""And flaunting it isn't what saved you."Ykka takes a deep breath. The muscles in her jaw flex, relax. "And that would be why I ask...”
“I didn't come up with the lie. It wasn't mine. They handed the lie to me, and I tried like hell to make it work for a while.”
“Now whenever I left class to go to the boys' room, I worried that I would end up on the blue tiled floor in a puddle of piss and blood.”
“I dont want anyone to hold back who they are. Its not okay its not a good thing”
“Did you just tell us you're gay?" Asks Nick"Yes.""Okay," he says. Abby swats him. "What?""That's all you're going to say? Okay?""He said not to make a big deal out of it," Nick says. "What am I sup...”
“Ben let a slow smile play over his face. He loved this part. It always felt like revealing to a disbeliever that he had magical powers or something.”
“If we held grudges for all the idiotic things we said and did as freshman and sophomores, the hallways would be silent.”
“No more looking at a wall and pretending it's a mirror. No more shelving fiction in the non-fiction section. No more thinking I could get away with it.”
“But I'm tired of coming out. All I ever do is come out. I try not to change,but I keep changing, in all these tiny ways ..... And every freaking time, I have to reintroduce myself to the universe a...”
“I mean, I really liked him to the point where being around him was sort of wonderful and painful all at the same time, you know?”
“She kissed me on the cheek, and my mom sang Theresas name from the open front door. She loves Theresa. I think she loves me more when Im with her.”
“I could feel his hand on my waist, his arms around me, feel the rise and fall of his chest next to mine as I held my breath, and wished the sun would drop out of the sky.”
“It was duck apocalypse!”
“Dude, he said instead, Im flattered as hell. And then he kicked my foot, lightly, twice. He was smiling.He couldnt see the chasm that had opened behind my ribs.”
“I've always wanted to wake up one day in a world where I liked the right people, and they lied me in return. I worry it'll never happen.”
“I'm still not totally sure I know what's true about me.”
“I do like the way people behave toward me and Theresa when were together-everyones voice changes to music, and we get all sorts of smiles.”
“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.”
“Most straight people, and many gay people, especially those who came of age more recently, dont understand how momentous and difficult coming out was to men and women of this generation. It seems s...”
