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We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.
From Boy Meets Boy
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Topic: Inspirational
Our moments are music, and sometimes – just sometimes – we can catch them and put them into some lasting form. If we didn’t have music, I don’t think we could ever be truly happy, and if we didn’t have special moments, we would never find music.
From How They Met, and Other Stories
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Topic: Relationships
But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.
From Boy Meets Boy
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Topic: Life, Relationships
Love doesn’t have to be on Valentine’s Day. It doesn’t have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn’t have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn’t have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third day.

It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirt.

It just has to be.
From How They Met, and Other Stories
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Topic: Inspirational, Life, Relationships
Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah
From Marly's Ghost
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Topic: Life
There are many things that can keep you in a relationship. Fear of being alone, Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life.A decision to settle for something that's okay. Because you don;t know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better even if you know he won't change.
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Topic: Relationships
i want to say to her: i just want to be myself. and i want to be with someone who's just himself. that's all. i want to see through all the performance and all the pretending and get right to the truth.
From Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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Topic: Relationships
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.
From Boy Meets Boy
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Topic: Funny
...It's just nice to see you out from his shadow. Because things don't grow in the shadows, you know? So it was frustrating to see you standing there...and really cool to see you step out of it. I don't know who this new guy is, but make sure when you're with him, you're not standing in his shadow. Stand where everyone can see you.
From Another Day
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Topic: Relationships
My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.
From Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
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Topic: Hope
I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.
From Every Day
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Topic: Relationships
Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.
From Boy Meets Boy
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Topic: Funny
What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.
From Love Is the Higher Law
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Topic: Death
...because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.
From Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
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Topic: Happiness
What is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity?
From Every Day
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Topic: Happiness
We found out a long time ago that we weren’t meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him
From Boy Meets Boy
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Topic: Hope
It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer.
From The Lover's Dictionary
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Topic: Life
In my kind of falling, there’s no landing. There’s only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you’re falling, it’s the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends.
From Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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Topic: Death
is that what relationships become? A reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in.
From Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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Topic: Relationships
I find myself thinking back to something I saw on the local news about a year ago. A teen football player had died in a car accident. The cameras showed all his friends after the funeral—these big hulking guys, all in tears, saying, “I loved him. We all loved him so much.” I started crying, too, and I wondered if these guys had told the football player they loved him while he was alive, or whether it was only with death that this strange word, love, could be used. I vowed then and there that I would never hesitate to speak up to the people I loved. They deserved to know they gave meaning to my life. They deserved to know I thought the world of them.
From Boy Meets Boy
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Topic: Death, Life
misgivings, n.

Last night, I got up the courage to ask you if you regretted us.
"There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.
From The Lover's Dictionary
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Topic: Relationships
now, if there's anything stupider than buddy lists, its lol. if anyone ever uses lol with me, i rip my computer right out of the wall and smash it over the nearest head. i mean, it's not like anyone is laughing out loud about the things they lol. i think it should be spelled loll. like what a lobotomized person's tongue does. loll. loll. i can't think anymore. loll. loll! or ttyl. bitch, you're not actually talking. that would require actual vocal contact or <3. you honestly think that looks like a heart? if you do, that's only because you'v never seen scrotum. (rofl! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there a sec while i KICK YOUR ASS)
From Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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Topic: Funny
Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling. An unexpected downpour and I am just giving myself into it. Because what the fuck else can you do? Run for cover? Shriek and curse? No--when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it because if you can make yourself happy in the rain, then you're doing pretty alright in life.
From Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
NOT YET RATING
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Topic: Happiness, Life
You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.
From Every You, Every Me
NOT YET RATING
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Topic: Life
We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.
From Boy Meets Boy
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Inspirational
Our moments are music, and sometimes – just sometimes – we can catch them and put them into some lasting form. If we didn’t have music, I don’t think we could ever be truly happy, and if we didn’t have special moments, we would never find music.
From How They Met, and Other Stories
NOT YET RATING
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Topic: Relationships
But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.
From Boy Meets Boy
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life, Relationships
Love doesn’t have to be on Valentine’s Day. It doesn’t have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn’t have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn’t have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third day.

It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirt.

It just has to be.
From How They Met, and Other Stories
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Inspirational, Life, Relationships
Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah
From Marly's Ghost
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
There are many things that can keep you in a relationship. Fear of being alone, Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life.A decision to settle for something that's okay. Because you don;t know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better even if you know he won't change.
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Relationships
i want to say to her: i just want to be myself. and i want to be with someone who's just himself. that's all. i want to see through all the performance and all the pretending and get right to the truth.
From Will Grayson, Will Grayson
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Relationships
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.
From Boy Meets Boy
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Funny
...It's just nice to see you out from his shadow. Because things don't grow in the shadows, you know? So it was frustrating to see you standing there...and really cool to see you step out of it. I don't know who this new guy is, but make sure when you're with him, you're not standing in his shadow. Stand where everyone can see you.
From Another Day
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Relationships
My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.
From Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.
From Every Day
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Relationships
Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.
From Boy Meets Boy
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Funny
What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.
From Love Is the Higher Law
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Death
...because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.
From Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
What is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity?
From Every Day
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
We found out a long time ago that we weren’t meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him
From Boy Meets Boy
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer.
From The Lover's Dictionary
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
In my kind of falling, there’s no landing. There’s only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you’re falling, it’s the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends.
From Will Grayson, Will Grayson
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Death
is that what relationships become? A reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in.
From Will Grayson, Will Grayson
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Relationships
I find myself thinking back to something I saw on the local news about a year ago. A teen football player had died in a car accident. The cameras showed all his friends after the funeral—these big hulking guys, all in tears, saying, “I loved him. We all loved him so much.” I started crying, too, and I wondered if these guys had told the football player they loved him while he was alive, or whether it was only with death that this strange word, love, could be used. I vowed then and there that I would never hesitate to speak up to the people I loved. They deserved to know they gave meaning to my life. They deserved to know I thought the world of them.
From Boy Meets Boy
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Death, Life
misgivings, n.

Last night, I got up the courage to ask you if you regretted us.
"There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.
From The Lover's Dictionary
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Relationships
now, if there's anything stupider than buddy lists, its lol. if anyone ever uses lol with me, i rip my computer right out of the wall and smash it over the nearest head. i mean, it's not like anyone is laughing out loud about the things they lol. i think it should be spelled loll. like what a lobotomized person's tongue does. loll. loll. i can't think anymore. loll. loll! or ttyl. bitch, you're not actually talking. that would require actual vocal contact or <3. you honestly think that looks like a heart? if you do, that's only because you'v never seen scrotum. (rofl! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there a sec while i KICK YOUR ASS)
From Will Grayson, Will Grayson
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Funny
Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling. An unexpected downpour and I am just giving myself into it. Because what the fuck else can you do? Run for cover? Shriek and curse? No--when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it because if you can make yourself happy in the rain, then you're doing pretty alright in life.
From Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness, Life
You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.
From Every You, Every Me
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.
From Boy Meets Boy
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Inspirational
Our moments are music, and sometimes – just sometimes – we can catch them and put them into some lasting form. If we didn’t have music, I don’t think we could ever be truly happy, and if we didn’t have special moments, we would never find music.
From How They Met, and Other Stories
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Relationships
But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.
From Boy Meets Boy
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life, Relationships
Love doesn’t have to be on Valentine’s Day. It doesn’t have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn’t have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn’t have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third day.

It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirt.

It just has to be.
From How They Met, and Other Stories
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Inspirational, Life, Relationships
Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah
From Marly's Ghost
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
There are many things that can keep you in a relationship. Fear of being alone, Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life.A decision to settle for something that's okay. Because you don;t know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better even if you know he won't change.
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Relationships
i want to say to her: i just want to be myself. and i want to be with someone who's just himself. that's all. i want to see through all the performance and all the pretending and get right to the truth.
From Will Grayson, Will Grayson
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Relationships
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.
From Boy Meets Boy
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Funny
...It's just nice to see you out from his shadow. Because things don't grow in the shadows, you know? So it was frustrating to see you standing there...and really cool to see you step out of it. I don't know who this new guy is, but make sure when you're with him, you're not standing in his shadow. Stand where everyone can see you.
From Another Day
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Relationships
My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.
From Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.
From Every Day
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Relationships
Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.
From Boy Meets Boy
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Funny
What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.
From Love Is the Higher Law
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Death
...because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.
From Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
What is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity?
From Every Day
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness
We found out a long time ago that we weren’t meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him
From Boy Meets Boy
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Hope
It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer.
From The Lover's Dictionary
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
In my kind of falling, there’s no landing. There’s only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you’re falling, it’s the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends.
From Will Grayson, Will Grayson
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Death
is that what relationships become? A reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in.
From Will Grayson, Will Grayson
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Relationships
I find myself thinking back to something I saw on the local news about a year ago. A teen football player had died in a car accident. The cameras showed all his friends after the funeral—these big hulking guys, all in tears, saying, “I loved him. We all loved him so much.” I started crying, too, and I wondered if these guys had told the football player they loved him while he was alive, or whether it was only with death that this strange word, love, could be used. I vowed then and there that I would never hesitate to speak up to the people I loved. They deserved to know they gave meaning to my life. They deserved to know I thought the world of them.
From Boy Meets Boy
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Death, Life
misgivings, n.

Last night, I got up the courage to ask you if you regretted us.
"There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.
From The Lover's Dictionary
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Relationships
now, if there's anything stupider than buddy lists, its lol. if anyone ever uses lol with me, i rip my computer right out of the wall and smash it over the nearest head. i mean, it's not like anyone is laughing out loud about the things they lol. i think it should be spelled loll. like what a lobotomized person's tongue does. loll. loll. i can't think anymore. loll. loll! or ttyl. bitch, you're not actually talking. that would require actual vocal contact or <3. you honestly think that looks like a heart? if you do, that's only because you'v never seen scrotum. (rofl! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there a sec while i KICK YOUR ASS)
From Will Grayson, Will Grayson
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Funny
Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling. An unexpected downpour and I am just giving myself into it. Because what the fuck else can you do? Run for cover? Shriek and curse? No--when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it because if you can make yourself happy in the rain, then you're doing pretty alright in life.
From Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Happiness, Life
You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.
From Every You, Every Me
NOT YET RATING
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Topic: Life
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