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“This affliction is what makes me smarter. This disadvantage is what gives me my ambition.”

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Book:Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family

Source: Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family

“I came to therapy thinking that my sexuality didn’t matter, but it turned out that every part of my personality was intimately connected. Cutting one piece damaged the rest.”

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“Naming something beautiful made it so. I'd seen this in the way the church spoke of marriage as a sacred institution and in the one man plus one woman bumper stickers people sported on their vehicles. The same ones my father would hand to any customer passing through his dealership service department. Naming something ugly had a similar effect. The sound of my mother's vomiting the night she drove me home had taught me this lesson better than anything else ever had. I was gay, had been named as such, a fact that once ingested had to be immediately expelled.”

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Book:Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family

Source: Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family

“If I could have done it myself, I would have already done it: pried open my ribs and etched the Word onto my heart’s beating chambers. But it seemed my ex-gay counselors were the only ones with enough skill and experience to wield the scalpel.”

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Book:Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family

Source: Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family