Quotes from work

Boy Meets Boy

“Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.”

“When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel.”

“We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home”

“But I want to feel like life matters. I
had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.”

“That strange, twisted, torn love.

That conflict between what your heart knows is right and what your mind is told is right.”

“Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.”

“Self-esteem can be so exhausting. I want to cut my hair, change my clothes, erase the pimple from the near-tip of my nose, and strengthen my upper-arm definition, all in the next hour.”

“Do I really have to find a word for it? Can't it just be what it is?”

“I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten.

It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.”

“I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else.”

“This is my life, I think. I am an accumulation of objects.”

“Part of love is letting a person be who they want to be”

“I think they have compatible silences.”

“I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.”

“I want to talk to you and be random with you and be ridiculous with you.”

“He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything - he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that's the danger with firsts - you lose all sense of proportion.”

“They defy gravity, as good books should.”

“Someday your prince will come," I assure him.
"And the first thing I'm going to say to him is, 'What took you so long?”

“I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else. I wonder if it's possible to have happiness without it being at someone else's expense”