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I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten. It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF. (David Levithan)
My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots. View quote
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Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse. View quote
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But we comforted ourselves with what we really meant to say, which was: "I don't normally feel this good about what I'm doing." Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it. View quote
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It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right. View quote
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And who am I to blow against the wind? View quote
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I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh so many ways I can disappoint. View quote
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Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices. View quote
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I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It's an infinite playlist. View quote
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I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable. I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler. View quote
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With all due respect, if you're forty-three, then I'm a fetus. (David Levithan)
I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too. View quote
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Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. View quote
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It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding. View quote
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All this hoping for something- or someone- that's maybe hopeless. I'm having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I'm even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don't like a lot of it. View quote
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Are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire? View quote
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Then I go in the den and turn on Law & Order, since the only thing i can really count on in life is that whenever I turn on the TV, there will be a Law & Order episode. View quote
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Every you, every me. Fractals. Fractures. View quote
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My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away. View quote
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dissonance, n. Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk to you and you won't. Hours when every noise you make interferes with my silence. Weeks when there is a buzzing in the air, and we both pretend we don't here it. View quote
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Your life is inescapable. Unless you decide to escape it. (David Levithan)
What did it matter to me? Did I think that by making you rational about one thing, I could make you rational about everything? Maybe. Or maybe I just wanted to save you from your fears. View quote
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Love me less, but love me for a long time. View quote
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That no matter what i did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed. View quote
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In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. View quote
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