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“There is nothing in that life that is worth not being who you really are,” I told him in quiet words, no longer sure if I was talking about him or me. “Play their game and you will end up a miserable imitation of the man you could really be.”

“Do you think we’re going to start touching guys? Molesting them? Are you saying gay guys, unlike straight guys, who are models of chastity, are just unable to control their urges? We’ve been getting naked in front of you guys for years, and no one ever died from it.
Ignorant, stupid people

“I didn’t have a life before you. All of that was… was just a waste of time.” I put my hand over his heart. “This, this is the first real thing I have ever felt. You didn’t ruin my life, dummy.
“You saved my life.” - Brad to Kyle

There is nothing in that life that is worth not being who you really are. Play their game and you will end up a miserable imitation of the man you could really be.” - Brad to Kelly

It was at that very moment I realized I was in love with Kyle Stilleno.

"But as I looked up and realized that this guy, this wonderful boy who never wanted more than to be invisible, had just gone toe to toe with the school’s running back to defend my honor, I knew for a fact that everyone who had come before meant nothing compared to him.
In all my eighteen years I had never seen what I saw sitting on a crappy nurse’s bed as he knelt next to me.