Top Highlights

• “The whole point of everyone is for them to constantly do stupid things while we—not everyone—make fun of them for it and feel superior.”
• Why did everyone no longer a teenager automatically dismiss any feeling you had then? Who cared if he’d grow out of it? That didn’t make it any less true in those painful and euphoric days when it was happening. The truth was always now, even if you were young. Especially if you were young.
• “Because my entire upbringing has told me there was only one way to be. That any other way is wrong. A deviation from their certainty.” “All the more reason to–” “I’m not finished. When I realized how things were, when I said to myself that I am not this thing I’ve been told I have to be, that I am this other thing instead, then Jesus, Ange, the la...
• It was so much easier to be loved than to have to do any of the desperate work of loving.
• I love you but . . . It was always, always, “I love you but . . .”