Quotes from Michael Thomas Ford

If your mother likes your drawing of a duck and hangs it on the refrigerator, that doesn't mean it's good." "Snob," Sam said.

People who look down on us poor country folk usually won't admit that anything worthwhile can come out of here.

Afterward I just lay there watching everyone kiss while I died, thinking how cool it was to be on my bedroom floor bleeding while everyone in America celebrated the end of my life

That's why teenage dating is so dumb, because it's doomed to fail. You'd think people would have learned that by now, but I guess they haven't. They go right on falling in love and thinking it's going to survive high school.

I love that word. Gaydar. So clever." "I'm afraid mine is broken," Burke said. "It never occurred to me that you were gay." "It's because I'm teeming with masculinity," Gaither joked.

I mean, if I'm going to go to all the trouble of being gay and everything, I might as well tell people.

If they had a pill that would fix every dysfunctional family in the world, don't you think they'd be selling it?" "I don't think the world is ready for that kind of happiness.

She laughed. "Welcome to Camp Meds," She said. "Where the campers are crazy and the counselors want you to take drugs.

To be fair he is Lord Byron," Jane said. "I don't know many people who haven't slept with him at one time or another." -- Jane Fairfax

Who uses crunchy peanut butter?" he asked the room. "You might as well eat squirrel shit.

He had never been a religious person. Even as a child he had found the notion of an omnipotent creator who punished his crations inconsistently for minor infractions of a vaguely defined moral code to be unthinkable to anyone with an ounce of sense.

I asked the doc, and he said that when people hurt us, the best thing to do isn't to ask why they did it but to remind ourselves that it wasn't our fault.

Like many men his age, he occupied a kind of limbo, not young enough to be the new face in the bars that everyone wanted and not old enough to be – and didn't want to be – the funny old queen whose jokes everyone laughed at. Instead, he was just middle aged and alone.

Sometimes seeing the changes in one another had the opposite effect and actually comforted them. Seeing that they weren't alone in growing older, they stopped caring, or at least caring so much. But often this seemed to be accompanied by a kind of neutering, a gradual disappearance of anything remotely resembling sexuality, until finally the men in question were more like kindly old aunties than men who liked to fuck other men.

He's afraid they'll tell their kids to stay away from him and cross the street when they see him. "Don't talk to the crazy man, honey. He might bite you." Coming from someone covered in tattoos, this seemed a little strange. I mean, you can see tattoos. You can't see crazy. If I was him, I'd be more worried about people thinking he was in a gang or something.

They don't like it when you end things the way you want to and don't wait for the way it's "supposed" to happen. What if suicide is the way it's supposed to happen? Do they ever think of that?

I feel like I'm always trying to keep control of my life. Sometimes I'd like to be able to just let go and fall.

Even though I've changed a lot in here, I'm going back to a world that hasn't changed.

It's sort of perfect, when you think about it. Isn't falling in love a lot like losing your head?

What are you scared of?" he asked me. I sighed really deeply, like it was totally hard for me to let my feelings out. "Everything," I told him. "I'm scared of everything.

you either are or aren't

It was odd --unsettling, actually-- how love magnified everything. Small joy was turned into overwhelming happiness; worry became heart-stopping fear. It was as if love became a magnifying glass turned on the heart, taking whatever was there and making it appear many times its normal size.

So much for Heather's first time," Sadie said in her normal voice. "She died a virgin. How sad.

They're the ones who screwed everything up. Not me. I didn't ask to be saved