“Just because you're into Kate...well, it doesn't necessarily mean you're gay. Although it's okay if you are. But if that's what's worrying you...' Ariel sighed. 'God. It shouldn't be so hard to talk about this stuff. All I'm saying is maybe you're gay and maybe you're not. Maybe you're bi. Or maybe it's totally a Kate thing. Maybe you'd want to be with her whether she was a girl or a boy.'
I blinked. I didn't know if what she said made things better or worse.”
“You can rèmove a tattoo; it's just difficult. And supposedly it's pretty painful. Some things, on the other hand, can't be undone.”
“All I knew now was that nothing lasted forever, not even a friendship, and that being "different" felt the same as being alone.”
“I didn’t know what I thought, other than that nothing was easy anymore and no matter what I did, things got messed up.”
“But if I didn't know Kate, then maybe I didn't know myself-and if was that not-knowing that made my gut clench. Like losing your balance, that whoosh of almost falling, before pulling yourself back in line.”
“Never sleep with a lady only once, especially in the case of an older lady.
-'Rhett ”
“He walked until his heart was as dreary as the sky, until some sort of truth came to him.”
“In open organizations, a catalyst is the person who initiates a circle and then fades away into the background.”
“Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the future.”
“People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others.”
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