“It’s hard to be proud of something you messed up, even if everything around it is perfect.”
“Don’t ignore the problems,” he says. “Learn from them. But also, don’t knock what you get right. Every success deserves a celebration.”
― I Wish You All the Best
“Don’t ignore the problems,” he says. “Learn from them. But also, don’t knock what you get right. Every success deserves a celebration.”
― I Wish You All the Best
“The world’s too loud sometimes.”
― I Wish You All the Best
― I Wish You All the Best
“But somehow, a journalist being hurt because he’s on to a dangerous story seems less traumatic than someone being attacked for living his life.”
― We Could Be So Good
― We Could Be So Good
“A couple times a year, Nick finds a tale of gay misery and woe on his desk, because apparently Bailey has taken it upon himself to be Nick's personal sad gay librarian.”
― We Could Be So Good
― We Could Be So Good
“But Nick's tired of dead queers. Nick's tired of people like him having to suffer in order to provide the right kind of ending. He's done his time with shame and doesn't want any more of it.”
― We Could Be So Good
― We Could Be So Good
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