Jordon Greene > Quotes

“He’s broken, hurting. This, all of this, is not what I expected, it’s not the idea of him I had in my head. It makes him more real to me. And honestly, it makes him beautiful. He’s trying so hard to be himself. All he wants is for the people he loves to love him back as he is. I get that.”
― Jordon Greene, Every Word You Never Said

“I guess sometimes forever is a lot shorter than you think it's going to be.”
― Jordon Greene, Watching for Comets

“Maybe the only things worth having are the things that scare you the most”
― Jordon Greene, Watching for Comets

“I throw my eyes back to the sky. How can it be so bright and calm? How can it be everything I can’t be? It's not fair.”
― Jordon Greene, A Mark on My Soul

“I want to hear his laugh. I want to see him smile. I want to watch him look at the stars and to see the stars in his eyes.”
― Jordon Greene, A Mark on My Soul

“I force myself to get up and lock my eyes on the painting, my birthday gift. It’s the essence of everything I want to remember about us. I pick it up and imagine the stars shimmering over us and the brisk air on our skin. The way the cold dissipated when we touched and nothing else mattered, how perfect it was.”
― Jordon Greene, A Mark on My Soul

“„For being a bitch,” she says. “He is. But he’s my bitch. So annoying, but you get used to it.”
― Jordon Greene

“It hurts to let go but it heals to be free.”
― Jordon Greene, Watching for Comets

“Want to ride to the coffee shop with me, but actually signed Want to ride and make out with me instead. Yeah, I had to just to give him hell for that.”
― Jordon Greene, Every Word You Never Said

“I hope I helped you see the world a little bit different, Park. Even just a little bit.”
― Jordon Greene, A Mark on My Soul

“Dammit, it should be easy to come out. I mean, Mom and Dad aren't a problem. I'm not worried they'll disown me or tell me some crap like I'm going to hell or take away my stuff. I'm just afraid they'll look at me differently. I don't know, like I'll be their gay son Noah instead of just Noah. I just want to be Noah Andrews, the simple, slightly nerdy, socially awkward guy, minus the big-ass secret.”
― Jordon Greene, A Mark on My Soul

“It's hard sometimes knowing which feeling to trust, which one is leading you to your best life and which is just fear keeping you from all the beautiful things life has waiting for you.”
― Jordon Greene, Watching for Comets

“The illusion of free will, of freedom, is a useful tool you know. Let people think they are free and present them with a danger to their so-called freedom, a fear. It’s amazing how much you can get them to deal with just as long as you tell them they’re still free.”
― Jordon Greene, They'll Call It Treason

“Fear, that’s the great motivator though. Fear keeps it all in check. Fear of one’s neighbor. Fear of those who don’t look like you. Fear of those who live in some barren desert halfway across the globe,” Sean continued. “Domestic terrorism, just as much as fear of those abroad has helped people accept more intrusion into their everyday lives. To accept less freedom as freedom itself.”
― Jordon Greene, They'll Call It Treason

“My eyes dart from one end of the table to the other as if somewhere among the splinters, cracks, and thorns there's an answer written in the wood.”
― Jordon Greene, Watching for Comets

“His lips lock onto mine and my knees go weak. The sweetness shoots through my mouth, sinking into every part of my brain. Then his lips part, and without thinking I match him bit by bit until our tongues touch, and something new I can’t explain surges through me. If I were to glow with how much I want him right now, I’d be brighter than the sun.”
― Jordon Greene, Every Word You Never Said

“God? If it’s so wrong, why couldn’t I have been given the choice, because I tell you right now, it wasn’t. I don’t want this. I never did. And honestly, every person in this building who thinks I woke up one day and chose this, that I chose to be ridiculed by them, to be looked down on by them, hated by them, is a fucking moron.”
― Jordon Greene, Every Word You Never Said

“If I had a car, I could do my own thing. I wouldn't be asking mom for hers or bumming rides from Ian and Eric. I could just go wherever, whenever. Maybe I'd drive over Sky's and pick him up and take him somewhere.”
― Jordon Greene

“It feels like forever, him and me.”
― Jordon Greene, Watching for Comets

“But what if Cam asks something harder, like why I didn’t come out earlier? Well, you see, Cam, I'm a pathetic loser and it took me over six years to say two little words. I feel utterly stupid every time I think about it. I know they’ll change everything, but they're still just words, and it is the twenty-first century, not the dark ages. That doesn’t seem to matter though. I'm still afraid that Cam and every other person in the world will start seeing me differently even though I'm still just me.”
― Jordon Greene, A Mark on My Soul

“In all capital letters, it proclaims, FUCK YOU FAGGOT. What the hell?”
― Jordon Greene, A Mark on My Soul

“In James Joyce’s Ulysses one of his characters said”
― Jordon Greene, A Mark on My Soul