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“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
― LeVar Burton

“Sons need fathers who are involved in their lives—dads who will love them, teach them, and discipline them. But clearly, sons also need a masculine vision. They need a manhood language. They need a ceremony. And they need other men. Knighthood, as an outline, offers all this and more.”
― Robert Lewis, Raising a Modern-Day Knight: A Father's Role in Guiding His Son to Authentic Manhood

“God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.”
― Paul Anka, My Way

“Embrace yourself. Be not afraid.”
― Richard Labonté, Second Person Queer: Who You Are

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

“As sneakily addictive as a game of Pong (which was named, we're told, after the narrator's dad), this zany zip-line of a novel takes the piss out of the Asian-American 'good immigrant' story. Full of charming antiheroes making comically bad choices, the story dazzles us with its absurdity, which makes its eventual wisdom--about lineage, ethnicity, and the meaning of family--all the more wonderfully surprising.”
― Michael Lowenthal

“Suck me off in the car on the way over and you call me horny?" Nate growled again. "Get out of those fucking jeans!”
― James Buchanan, The Good Thief

“That's what people do. Kill the things they're afraid of.”
― Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

“He spoke so slowly, cobwebs could have formed between his words.”
― Scott Heim, Mysterious Skin

“It was Brian's blood, and for some reason I knew it was pure. No other man I'd held in my arms -and now, not even I- had blood this pure.”
― Scott Heim, Mysterious Skin

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Fear is like a really hard, worthless rock that can hide rich obsidian or beautiful crystals.”
― Robin Reardon, Throwing Stones

“Being called gay as an insult had left me emotionally scarred. And although I knew I would probably never speak to any of those kids again in my life, I still felt that I had to stand my ground against them. When it came right down to it, I just didn't want to be gay. And part of me was frustrated that just because I acted feminine, everyone automatically assumed I was gay. Sure, it was true, but I didn't want to feed into a stereotype just because I was acting in a way that came naturally to me.”
― Joey Graceffa

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
― Benjamin Spock

“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
― Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

“Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.”
― Adam Lindsay Gordon

“The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal.”
― Connor Franta

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

“If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?”
― Maya Angelou

“Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?”
― Tim O'Brien

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
― Will Rogers

“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.”
― Mark Twain

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Those who continue to live in the past will never have a future!”
― Beem Weeks

“War is brutish, inglorious, and a terrible waste... The only redeeming factors were my comrades' incredible bravery and their devotion to each other. Marine Corps training taught us to kill efficiently and to try to survive. But it also taught us loyalty to each other - and love. That espirit de corps sustained us.”
― Eugene B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

“Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.”
― Dorothy Parker