Do you know how you get the urge to clean your room, and itโs no big deal? But when your mom tells you that you have to clean your room, you don't want to? That's me, anyway.
Bill KonigsbergAnd perhaps the best answer is not to tolerate differences, not even to accept them. But to celebrate them. Maybe then those who are different would feel more loved, and less, well, tolerated.
Bill KonigsbergWouldn't it be nice if we lived in a world where no one thought being gay was even something to ride someone about?
Bill KonigsbergThe hole in my heart, I canโt even begin to describe. Itโs hard when you open your heart and let someone in and then suddenly theyโre not in it anymore. It doesnโt matter whose fault it is; that empty spot stings so bad that you want to find any kind of relief, or wrap yourself up so tight you canโt feel it anymore. I knew it might be there a little while. Or maybe even a long while. For both of us.
Bill KonigsbergIt needs to be said that sometimes my mom forgets important details when she talks. Like the time she told us she was considering leather (couches, it turns out), or when I was little and she said, "Here's a napkin to put your balls in" (the Atomic Fireballs that I was eating, she meant).
Bill Konigsberg