“We grow. It hurts at first.”

“People scare me. They change their minds so quick. One moment it’s “I love you” and “you make me happy” and the next it’s “I’m not sure anymore” and “this isn’t what I want.””

“But don’t lose heart, dear ones—don’t lose heart. Don’t let it make you bitter. Try to understand. Try to understand. The world’s already bitter enough, we got to try to be better than the world.”

“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”

“My head was heavy: I was deathly sad.”

“There is a difference between kissing someone because they are attractive and kissing someone because words can no longer accurately express your feelings for the person.”

“How much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it’s some kind of murder?”

are you straight or gay or bi or what?

“Nothing goes away. Not on its own. You deal with it, or it deals with you.”