Liam Owens

“I wanted to tell him not to cry anymore, tell him that what those boys did to that bird didn’t matter. But I knew it did matter. It mattered to Dante. And, anyway, it didn’t do any good to tell him not to cry because he needed to cry. That’s the way he was.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Even if I’m gay?” I say the word out loud, about myself, because even though I never chose this, I can choose to accept it before it’s too late.”
― Adam Silvera, More Happy Than Not

“Sometimes I think my father has all these scars. On his heart. In his head. All over. It’s not such
an easy thing to be the son of a man who’s been to war.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“there were about a thousand things I liked better than this part, in which we talked about women like they were just things. I tried to imagine what it would be like if gay were normal and all of us were gay. Would we objectify men in the same way? My”
― Bill Konigsberg, Openly Straight