“Love isn’t a choice. You fall for the person, not their chromosomes.”
“The biggest difference between boy and girls is how people treat them”
“If there’s one thing I learned from my dad leaving my mom, it’s that love isn’t a choice. You fall for the person, not their chromosomes.”
“That was When I realized that life was a multiple-choice test with two answerd: Male and Female, And I was None Of The Above.”
“The common thread from all those stories was that talking helped, and listening, and time. One day I would find my own place. I couldn't run there, though, because it didn't exist yet; I had to build it myself, out of forgiveness, truth, and terrifying gestures of friendship.”
“You know I love you too, sweetie. Forever and ever, until the sun fades.”
“My cheeks flushed, and I felt a wave of warmth throughout my body, but not because of the subject matter. Because she had used the word us.
It was one of those times when you don’t realize how lonely you are until, suddenly, there’s someone by your side.”
“I could still feel the echo of his hand on mine.”
“And I wondered for the first time whether 'feeling feminine' just meant feeling good in your own skin.”
“But what does that mean, to "identify" as a gril? Just because you feel like you´re a girl doesn´t mean that you really are”
“low expectations were the key to a happy life.”
“If tonight wasn’t going to be the night—one week after my eighteenth birthday, with a limo to ourselves and no curfew—when was?”
“As long as we had ground under our feet and the wind at our backs, things were going to be okay.”
“Rex?” He freezes and when he looks at me I can see the uncertainty he’s trying to cover up with his motions. “I think you’re perfect. I mean, shit, that sounded sappy, but, I mean perfect in my opinion.” Ugh, how do I explain what I mean? That all those things that he is came together like the perfect recipe. “For you?” he says. “Hmm?” “Perfect for you, maybe?” He looks shy and pleased. All I can do is nod. He hoists me up onto the counter and kisses me silly.”
“Tim Mason. The human equivalent of C-4.”
“you ask
if we can still be friends
i explain how a honeybee
does not dream kissing
the mouth of a flower
and then settle for its leaves”
“You’ll be surprised to see what can collect in a mattress over the months, over the years. Every day, every night of our lives, we’re leaving little bits of ourselves, flakes of this and that, behind. Where do they go, these bits and pieces of ourselves? Right through the sheets and into the mattress, that’s where! Pillows, too. It’s all the same. He”
“We have outsmarted ourselves, like greedy monkeys, and now we are full of dread.”
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