You can be anything you want, but when you go against who you are inside, it doesn't feel good.

I don't think about relatability (when writing), I think about the heart of the character.

Wouldn't it be nice if we lived in a world where no one thought being gay was even something to ride someone about?

You can be anything you want, but when you go against who you are inside, it doesn't feel good.

It 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).

The Greeks were smarter than us, and they had different words for different kinds of love. There's storge, which is family love. That's not us. There's eros, which is sexual love. There's philia, which is brotherly love. And then there's the highest form. Agape.” He pronounced it “aga-pay.” “That's transcendental love, like when you place the other person above yourself.

Guilt is about something you do. Shame is about who you are.