Daniel Aleman > Quotes

“There will always be people who think someone is worth less than they are because of what they look like or where they're from. But just because there are people who believe these things, it doesn't make any of it true.”
― Daniel Alemán, Indivisible

“I have never regretted asking for help when I needed it. Sometimes, the only way to be strong is to let someone else carry some of the weight with you.”
― Daniel Alemán, Indivisible

“And if there's one thing I've learned after decades of reading books, it's that best friends can make it through anything, dear.”
― Daniel Alemán, I Might Be in Trouble

“It makes you wonder, doesn’t it? How much an author chooses the story they want to tell, and how much the story chooses them.”
― Daniel Alemán, I Might Be in Trouble

“Maybe they were some of the lucky ones—the kind of gay men who find their person early on in life and get to spend decades feeling safe, loved, and wanted—and Robert simply wasn’t satisfied. Maybe he wanted more. Maybe his fragile ego needed the attention of other men—younger men—so he could feel worthy, important, and desirable.”
― Daniel Alemán, I Might Be in Trouble

“Isn’t it a privilege, really? To want and be wanted back? To have loved and lost—”
― Daniel Aleman, I Might Be in Trouble

“What I find funny though is that people talk about dreams coming true as if it were a point of arrival. A final destination. And once you've reached it, there should be no going back.”
― Daniel Alemán, I Might Be in Trouble

“My side has always been different--it's one where my family and I have always had to 'be careful,' one where our existence has always been up for debate, where my dreams are less valid, no matter how hard I might be willing to work to achieve them.”
― Daniel Alemán, Indivisible

“I've never thought of myself as capable of killing someone. Not even accidentally. I find it hard to believe I'm actually responsible for doing this, but I wonder how surprised other people would be if they could catch a glimpse of me right now.”
― Daniel Alemán, I Might Be in Trouble

“And just like that, we’re on the move again. Supporting the weight of a dead man on our shoulders. Hailing a cab on Fifth Avenue while hundreds of people walk and drive by, blissfully unaware that they’re witnessing a crime. That’s something positive to be said about New York, I suppose—as long as you’re not a slow walker, no one cares what you do.”
― Daniel Aleman, I Might Be in Trouble