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I really don't worry about that anymore. When you're dying, you don't have time for that junk. The shit people did to you? It's over.

I knew that she was right, obviously. But part of me didn't want to. I wanted to have someone to call my own so badly that I just couldn't let it go.

We were dancers and drummers and standers and jugglers, and there was nothing anyone needed to accept or tolerate. We celebrated.

Acceptance is an affirmation that you're good enough.

What do you call it when a straight person comes out? ... A conversation

Maybe in life, most of us feel inferior because we compare our dress rehearsals to [Janelle Monae's] final performance.
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You can be anything you want, but when you go against who you are inside, it doesn't feel good.

Straight people have it so much easier. They don't understand. They can't. There's no such thing as openly straight.

I'm not getting this. How do you take a break from who you are, Shay Shay?

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

Lean forward, and head on down the mountain.

And I think, What's the opposite of suffocation?

The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on it axis when everybody else is bouncing around.

Wow. Did I just write that? I didn't want who I am to come between us? How could I not have seen that?

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

Oh, I'm so glad. You love a boy," my mom said. "You're still our Rafe, underneath this hideous straight disguise ... .

More and more these days, I'm realizing that I might be crazy, but I'm loved too. I don't think I ever really knew that before, but I do now.

Actually, tolerance and acceptance are different. To tolerate seems to mean that there is something negative to tolerate, doesn't it?

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

Yes, my name is Seamus - pronounced SHAY-mus - Rafael Goldberg. Try being five with that name.