“I can't believe you rode the Tilt-A-Whirl for me.
"I must really like you," he says.”
Source: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
“I want to hold your hand, I say softly. Because we're in public. Because I don't know if he's out.
"So hold it," he says.
And I do.”
Source: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
“And I never would have remembered spoons, but he did. Of course.”
Source: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
“One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important. Most people enjoy those rare moments when others make them feel important. It is one of the deepest human desires.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“And seriously, I can't even. Because Cal's bangs. Cal's eyes.”
Source: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
“But maybe this is a big deal. Maybe it's a holy freaking huge awesome deal.
Maybe I want it to be.”
Source: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
“homies”
“Dante, Dante, Dante. He was like a heart that was beating in every pore of my body. His heart was beating in my heart. His heart was beating in my head. His heart was beating in my stomach. His heart was beating in my legs. His heart was beating in my arms, my hands, my fingers. His heart was beating in my tongue, my lips. No wonder I was trembling. Trembling, trembling, trembling.”
Source: Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
“Binders have become my protective layer, my second skin, my shield that makes me feel safe and more myself.”
Source: Stay Gold
“In reality, I was a lanky, black, obvious teenager, obviously effeminate too, if given an opportunity to move or speak. But from a distance, maybe my body transformed, as the bodies of young black men are wont to do when stared at by white people in this country. Maybe my spine stretched itself into a basketball player’s posture, this stranger’s gaze giving me something I could never quite seem to give myself: the sense of being a real man, strong, even intimidating.”
Source: How We Fight For Our Lives