“We all have love and pain to share, every last one of us, and we all have to choose who to share them with. Sharing the love is one thing. But when we decide to share the pain – well, you could go anywhere from there.” PeopleLovePainRelationships Book:Fem Source: Fem
“With mentally ill people, when they are good, they are better than anyone else. They shine. They crackle. They pop. They can dazzle a whole room, they never meet a stranger. It’s just that the downslides, the crashes…well, they are devastating.” PeopleMental HealthMental Illness Book:Fem Source: Fem
“... all you have to do is hold on long enough to get to the “mostly okay” part.” FightingDepressionLivingMoving On Book:All We Ever Wanted Source: All We Ever Wanted
“Being okay with being gay, or different, means nothing until you love all of your gayness and different-ness. Really, the “manliest” move of all is just looking in the mirror, shutting out the noise of the world, and deciding to be nothing but yourself.” MenLoveGayLgbtMasculinityEmancipationManly Book:Fem Source: Fem
“You are so special and important and elegant and smart and kind and worthwhile, and you are so much better than me and everyone else I’ve ever known in every single way, and you are the only truth I have ever found in this lying world, and I love you to the floor of me, and it breaks me to imagine a future without you in it, and I just want you to know all that, just because.” LoveSummerAffection Book:The Summer Remains Source: The Summer Remains
“Why was unconditional love given to some, but not all? Why would my mother only love me, and why did society only accept me, under the condition that I agreed to pretend to be someone I wasn’t? Why was acceptance offered to some, but not all? And who had decided all these rules, anyway?” LoveSocietyAcceptanceInjusticeInequalityLgbt Book:All We Ever Wanted Source: All We Ever Wanted
“Who would I be today if I didn’t let the world dictate who I was for so long? And is there even time for me to become me? Or have I already arrived at a personality, as fake as it may be?” SocietyLgbt Book:Fem Source: Fem