These kinds of fights can never be won – even if you’re the victor, you’ve hurt the other person, and there has to be some loss associated with that.
The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can’t deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope. Every time I see these feelings in someone else’s face, it weighs me down.
Make more than dust.
Holden Caulfield is the embodiment of what we mean by the phrase “young adult” – too young to be a grown-up, but too wise to the world to be completely innocent. He’s caught in the in-between, and that in-between is what all young adult authors write about.
I have to tell you, man, that my stalker meter is kind of registering in the red zone right now.
In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love for a gender. I have fallen for individuals. I know this is hard for people to do, but I don’t understand why it’s so hard, when it’s so obvious.
I don’t have the heart to tell him that’s the wrong way to think about the world. There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.
Hell, yes,” Dev says, sitting up now. “Don’t get me wrong – we’re totally going to make the beast with two backs tonight. But if we do it right, it’s going to feel like holding hands.
There comes a time when the body takes over the life. There comes a time when the body’s urges, the body’s needs, dictate the life. You have no idea you are giving the body the key. But you hand it over. And then it’s in control. You mess with the wiring and the wiring takes charge.
Freedom isn’t just about voting and marrying and kissing on the street, although all of these things are important. Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.
I’ve known this for a while, but you can know something for years without it really hitting you.
Indelible, adj. That first night, you took your finger and pointed to the top of my head, then traced a line between my eyes, down my nose, over my lips, my chin, my neck, to the center of my chest. It was so surprising. I knew I would never mimic it. That one gesture would be yours forever.
But I guess the thing about fear is that it defies the laws of rationality. It creates its own laws instead.
This is why we call people exes, I guess – because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end.
As I step out of bed and slip on an oversize shirt, everything around me feels like it’s the temperature of happiness.
This is the power of a kiss: It does not have the power to kill you. But it has the power to bring you to life.
Anticipation is no longer needed- because the moment is now.
He’s just a friend, we’d argue. But if he was just a friend, why was he hidden, why were we so upset to have him discovered?
Some people think mental illness is a matter of mood, a matter of personality. They think depression is simply a form of being sad, that OCD is a form of being uptight. They think the soul is sick, not the body. It is, they believe, something that you have some choice over. I know how wrong it is.
Even though you’re not my type, gender wise, you’re certainly my type, person-wise.