“Guilt is about something you do. Shame is about who you are.”
― Openly Straight
― Openly Straight
“You can be anything you want, but when you go against who you are inside, it doesn’t feel good.”
― Openly Straight
― Openly Straight
“If everything really does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. But that's crap, because better isn't quantifiable.”
― The Beginning of Everything
― The Beginning of Everything
“Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes could be grandly miscalculated, or stories deemed boring, and I'd learned early on that my sense of humor and ideas about what sorts of things were fascinating didn't exactly overlap with my friends'.”
― The Beginning of Everything
― The Beginning of Everything
“The hole in my heart, I can’t even begin to describe. It’s hard when you open your heart and let someone in and then suddenly they’re not in it anymore. It doesn’t matter whose fault it is; that empty spot stings so bad that you want to find any kind of relief, or wrap yourself up so tight you can’t feel it anymore. I knew it might be there a little while. Or maybe even a long while. For both of us.”
― Openly Straight
― Openly Straight
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