Jay Bell > Quotes

“Love isn’t meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Summer

“There’s a coward and a fool, and both of them are you, My heart is cracked and broken, but yours is frozen through.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Summer

“Teach me how to fly, my beautiful butterfly.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Summer

“Why couldn't people's insides match their outsides? The world would be such a wonderful place if the nicer someone was, the more beautiful they became.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Summer

“That the sun still rose the next morning was incredibly unjust. Someone good had died. People still woke up, had breakfast, went to work, and it was wrong. Flower petals still opened in the sun’s early light, and animals still grazed the day away, their minds untroubled. Someone good had died and the world had the audacity to move on.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Summer

“Enséñame a volar, mi mariposa hermosa,’ Tim said suddenly. ‘It’s from a poem I— Well, it’s from a poem.’

‘What’s it mean?’

”Teach me how to fly, my beautiful butterfly.”

- Tim Wyman”
― Jay Bell

“Just be careful. Passion is a bridge that connects love and hate. When you're standing in the middle of that bridge, don't let yourself get turned around. You've got to make sure you know which direction you're heading. Watch yourself.”
― Jay Bell, Kamikaze Boys

“Some ghosts haunt you for life. The best you can do is make room on the couch and get used to living with them.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Winter

“Falling in love is a subtle process, a connection sparked by attraction, tested by compatibility, and forged by memory.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Summer

“What’s it say about a person when they know they have a problem but never do anything to fix it?” Eric smiled. “That they’re human.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Winter

“You love a woman, you love a man, you love a tomato. God is happy, because he created love.»”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Winter

“He was so handsome, so beautiful. Inside and out.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Summer

“I don't have any first times left... I hope that's OK.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Lightning

“I guess I should have known back then. All the guys after him only left flesh wounds. Benjamin managed to get into my bones on day one.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Spring

“You want something that belongs only to us, that no one else can touch. A relationship, a marriage is nothing without a promise. Only the promise matters, because once it's broken, nothing is left. I promise you, Jace, that I love you. I love you now, and I will love you forever and ever. Nothing can change that.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Autumn

“He looks into my eyes,
mine mirrored in his,
and we each see a boy,
lost in pauper’s bliss.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Summer

“You know how they say you can never go home again?

Yeah.

They're full of it. The truth is, you can never leave home. Not completely.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Autumn

“Love isn’t meant to be hidden away. Life is too short for shame.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Summer

“Popular kids are just a powerful union of needy, insecure losers.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Winter

“Yeah, and I honestly don’t hold it against you anymore. Ben’s an amazing guy, and I bet losing someone like that hurt pretty damn bad. You both paid for what happened, which is a shame, because love shouldn't have a price.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Winter

“You know that old saying about home being where the heart is? I don’t think that refers to your own. It’s the hearts of other people, the ones you love, that makes a home.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Autumn

“No wheelchair can support damaged self-esteem until it learns to stand upright. No cane can help emotions limp along until they can walk.

A cast or brace can't protect a vulnerable spirit, and not even the strongest painkiller can stop the ache cause by a failed relationship.

No, the only way a broken heart mends itself is with stitches of time and the sticky tape of hastily rearranged dreams.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Spring

“Some people think ignoring their inner child makes them seem grown-up. When I see someone ignoring a crying child, I think they're an asshole.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Autumn

“Ben let a slow smile play over his face. He loved this part. It always felt like revealing to a disbeliever that he had magical powers or something.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Summer

“Victor stood in front of him, arms crossed over his chest as he frowned. “There should be some deal when you get married that if one person dies, the other does too.”

“At the same time? That would be nice.” Jace thought about it for a moment. “How would it happen? If one person dies in a house fire, and the other is at work, would they burst into flames at the office?”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Autumn

“To the untrained eye, Ben had nothing, at least by the bizarre rules that governed high school. But really, Ben was one of the few who wasn't pretending, one of the few who was free.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Winter

“I need my meds. And shock therapy. And maybe an enema!”
― Jay Bell, Like and Subscribe

“Adrien treated heterosexuality like an urban legend.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Autumn

“Because we're not gay or straight, good or bad, single or married. We're human, and that means we're all sorts of things, and I know you don't want to hear one of my stupid ideas right now, but think about how often we're told to choose. Our whole lives we're asked to. Which team, which army, which political party? Even when that choice is hard, goes against what the majority considers acceptable, we still fail ourselves by letting it define us."
(Victor)”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Autumn

“You never stop loving someone.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Winter