I sing louder and he looks right at me, finally getting it, because what I am saying with the rise of my voice is that I know he understands what music is about, he has seen the Lord in it, even if it’s not my Lord.
Esas clases de peleas nunca pueden ser ganadas, incluso si eres el victorioso, has herido a la otra persona, y tiene que haber alguna derrota asociada con eso.
People like to say being gay isn’t like skin color, isn’t anything physical. They tell us we always have the option of hiding. But if that’s true, why do they always find us?
It’s Miranda who speaks up. “You’re gay,” she says, with complete seriousness. “And I love you.
I suspected that when something was a beginning and an ending at the same time, that meant it could only exist in the present.
Each of us has our own unit of measurement, our own relativity. Spaces between loves. Spaces between destinations. Spaces between deaths.
He knows he is missing something. He is always missing something. He can never get past the first stop of finding it, which is knowing what it is.
You grabbed my hand and twirled me around, two sidewalk sweethearts. Then, very earnestly, you stopped, leaned over, and whispered, “You know, I’d get a tattoo with your name on it. Only, I want you to have the freedom to change your name if you want to.
The dreamy guy at this Starbucks wasn’t working the counter. Instead he was working a broom behind it, smiling as he swept. At first I didn’t get the smile, but then I realized he was listening to the radio, to Norah Jones sliding her voice around he notes. In his own way, he was dancing alone.
But I guess it’s just as easy to get lost in the dealing as it is to get lost in the avoidance.
You shouldn’t have to venture deep down in order to get to love.
And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.
I wanted love to conquer all. But love can’t conquer anything.
To love – to fall – is not a question. To touch – to kiss – to speak – those are questions. There is nothing worse than a ruined friendship. There is nothing better than a companion. Somewhere in between lies risk. Somewhere in between, lies.
Dumbfounded adj. And still for all the jealousy, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that we’re together. That someone like me could find someone like you – it renders me wordless.
And you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.
But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail.
In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence of dream. But I don’t want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole.
The sound of words as they’re said is always different from the sound they make when they’re heard, because the speaker hears some of the sound from the inside.
There are friends, but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with.