Quotes from John Goode

you are your own hero. Do not wait for someone to save you, rescue you or tell you that you are ok. Be the hero of your own story and never, ever let them make you the victim.

I don't remember the moment I knew I was broken...but I do recall when I started to understand that it might be okay. It was the moment I fell in love with the boy with the green eyes.

If she understood the difference between referring to me as "the gay guy" and using my name, the knowledge was lost between her vapid gaze and her single AAA-battery brain.

I even went to the source of all wisdom, I went and knelt at the great Queen of Drag's feet and asked her how to find love. She backhanded me in between verses of Whitney Houston and told me if she knew, why in fuck would she be here ?

life sucks, and I am pretty sure Fate hates me. But there is nothing I can do about any of that.

The thing about living with a death sentence for so long is you tend to miss the moment life starts to get better because you're so ready for it to get much, much worse.

That's the funny thing about cars and teenage boys. They never mean to hurt you when they crash, they just do.

If nothing ended, then we'd all be stuck in the middle.

The tought that some people might be so ignorant as to think someone can be "turned" gay had just never crossed my mind. Who thinks this crap? Like homosexuality is a contagious disease. And if it was contagious, wouldn't a group of us have left packages of infected plaid shirts and jock straps lying around to turn the guys we wanted?

He heard you in the chapel and gave you more time to make things better. Time to say what you needed to say, do what you needed to do. It wasn't a joke! It was divine mercy, and you blew it! You were given what billions of people beg for, and you have the audacity to be angry about it?

You, sir, are a twat.

That is the true crime that fairy tales commit - making people like me think that we counted in this world. I was neither hot nor in shape. I was just a normal boy in an extraordinary world, and stories like that, no matter how misleading and destructive, would always appeal to people like me.

If you had asked me the day before whether high school could get any worse, I would have bet you everything I had that I had sunk to the lowest I could get. Yet here I was, at a whole new sub-level I had never imagined.

NO ONE starts a trip thinking that they might crash. Even though there is always a possibility, no one in their right mind ever begins a journey thinking that it's going to end in failure. There are only two types of people in the world who are aware and plan on crashing before they ever start : test pilots and teenage boys.

Every time I had dared to hope for something in my life, it seemed that fate, like a small, angry child, went out of its way to make sure I not only didn't get it but was instead rewarded with the exact opposite.

I wasn't normal, and no matter how hard I tried, I was never going to be. And though I didn't hear it at the time, a small part of me exclaimed "Good!

We are told in fairy tales that evil always loses and good eventually will triumph. That is what makes the story so desirable to the general population. They want to believe that karma works and the bad guys are always defeated in the end. But in a world where no one thinks they are the bad guy and everyone plays the victim, it is harder and harder to find the black-and-white of a situation. We are all the hero and we are all the monster it just depends on which way you look at it.

The very thought of being gay gave me chills. Not because of what I thought of it, but for what others would.

There are more people on this planet who will be nice to you than won't," I said, ignoring my aching face. "The only difference is the ones who are loud and obnoxious are the only ones we tend to see. The hatred and seething fury gets all the press, while the quiet acceptance seems to fade into the background

Anyone who knows anything knows that almost nothing ever ends, and when it does, it rarely ever does so well.

There is never a penis that is as comfortable hard as it is soft in a pair of jeans.

I was seventeen and on the edge of an eighteen that seemed terrifying to a young man not sure of his sexuality. I knew I liked guys but was still under the delusion that an attraction to guys didn't make you gay just like drowning didn't mean you were breathing water. it just made you different, and as we all know, in high school there is nothing worse than being different.