Phil Stamper > Quotes

“Don't aim to fix people. Fixing seems so permanent, so absolute. Like there's no room for error. Aim to make things better.”
― Phil Stamper, The Gravity of Us

“People aren’t broken, and therapists couldn’t fix them if they were. But maybe someone can make things a little better, or help them be a little happier.”
― Phil Stamper, The Gravity of Us

“If you want to kiss me, kiss me because you like me. Not because you think it will make you happy. You can't just kiss away all the bad feelings I have. You can't kiss me and make me better.”
― Phil Stamper, The Gravity of Us

“Nostalgia is a blindfold.”
― Phil Stamper, The Gravity of Us

“I'm a planner. Plans can change, I'm cool with that, but not having a plan at all? It terrifies me.”
― Phil Stamper, The Gravity of Us

“The future is hard, eh?”
― Phil Stamper, The Gravity of Us

“Headphones on, I fix myself so I can go back to fixing the world.”
― Phil Stamper, The Gravity of Us

“Oooh, look at my athlete. You’ll have to show me your somersault someday.”
“Oh, so I’m your athlete now?”
My face flushes with heat, and I reach for the air-conditioning. As I direct all vents toward me, he leans forward, slowly, and plants a soft kiss on my cheek.
“I like the sound of that,” he says. “Being yours.”
― Phil Stamper, The Gravity of Us

“If people can wear their hate so proudly on their sleeve, why can't I wear acceptance in the same way?" (pg.137)”
― Phil Stamper, Small Town Pride

“I hadn't yet thought about coming back, really, because I never thought about leaving.”
― Phil Stamper, The Gravity of Us

“But you can have more than one family. You can choose your family.”
― Phil Stamper, As Far As You'll Take Me

“Don’t aim to fix people. Fixing seems so permanent, so absolute. Like there’s no room for error. Aim to make things better.”
― Phil Stamper, The Gravity of Us

“Seriously. No more apologies about this. I love you.”
“And I love you.”
“And that’s all,” I say. “That’s all that matters.”
― Phil Stamper, The Gravity of Us

“I spend so much of my time trying to make my sexuality as little of a deal as possible, while everyone else in my life seems to be making it into a huge thing.”
― Phil Stamper, As Far As You'll Take Me

“Love is something entirely different. It's realizing the storm's been raging so long you forget you're drenched, until the sun kisses your cheek, dries your tears, and shows you where your real home is.”
― Phil Stamper, As Far As You'll Take Me

“If you want to kiss me, kiss me because you like me. Not because you think it’ll make me happy.”
― Phil Stamper, The Gravity of Us

“To my family. The one I was born into, and the one I found along the way.”
― Phil Stamper, As Far As You'll Take Me

“be the Nike swoosh”
― Phil Stamper, As Far As You'll Take Me

“That's what makes our relationship so different from any other I've had. That's what makes it so special. I'm learning not fixing. For once, I'm listening - or at least I'm trying to.”
― Phil Stamper, The Gravity of Us

“Megan's in the driver's seat. Me, the passenger. Always the passenger.”
― Phil Stamper, As Far As You'll Take Me

“I’ll never understand how we can be so open and how they can be so kind then close up so quickly. How their version of God can drive a steak through the heart of our relationship and they don’t even realise it’s happening.”
― Phil Stamper, As Far As You'll Take Me

“Heartbreak happens, I looked it up. I tried to imagine what it felt like, even though I'd read dozens of books and articles. But it's nothing like that. There's no way to describe it in words, except maybe if you repeated the world "fuck" for four or five pages.”
― Phil Stamper, As Far As You'll Take Me

“But I can’t show how this is affecting me so I turn to him and smile like I’m the most normal kid in Normalville. Meanwhile, I’m shaking on the inside.”
― Phil Stamper, As Far As You'll Take Me

“But Sophie looks at her almost forlornly, like she wants to be friends, like she wants to be part of the group. I know that feeling.”
― Phil Stamper, As Far As You'll Take Me

“Fixing seems so permanent, so absolute. Like there’s no room for error. Aim to make things better.”
― Phil Stamper, The Gravity of Us

“I don’t have a favorite, but I literally couldn’t go to the gym for practice without my K-pop playlist.”
― Phil Stamper, The Gravity of Us

“Aren’t things ever just okay? Can’t people fall out but not fall apart?”
― Phil Stamper, As Far As You'll Take Me

“Can you really be so close to someone, know everything about them, and still...not know them?”
― Phil Stamper, As Far As You'll Take Me

“I hear you’re from America,” she says. I try to keep up with politics there because of my friend who works over there. And it sounds like a new mess happens every day. Not sure you escaped to a better country, but I will say, London and its people are beautiful.”
― Phil Stamper, As Far As You'll Take Me

“We're a little off balance, and it's not even comfortable anymore, but it feels so safe and so right.”
― Phil Stamper, Golden Boys