Quotes from Brent Hartinger

Why can't there be just one place for gay kids, where we don't have to hide who we are? Hell, straight people have the whole rest of the world! They go around holding hands and kissing and talking about 'my-girlfriend-this' and 'my-boyfriend-that.' And they say we shove our lifestyle in their faces? That's a laugh!

The fact is, there's a difference between being alone and being lonely; I may not of been completely alone in life, but I was definitely lonely.

people make mistakes. If there was no such thing as forgiveness, there wouldn't be any friendships left in the world.

I know that opposites attract, but who the hell wants to spend time with an opposite?

Are you? I said. Gay, I mean? - I hoped he wasn't offended by my asking, but after everything that had happened, I really wanted to know. No, he said. I thought I was for about a w-w-week once. But now I know I'm not. If there was ever an answer that sounded like the truth, that was it.

I got to third base. At baseball practice the following Monday, that is. As for what happened that night with Kevin at the stinky picnic gazebo, that's none of your damn business.

even the ugliest place in the world can be wonderful if you're there with good friends—just like the most fabulous destination on earth is pretty boring when you're all alone.

Just because you can't understand me, doesn't mean I can't understand you

did it ever occur to whoever wrote that stupid adage that hurtful words might be a pretty good indication that sticks and stones are on the way?

In spite of everything, he still felt wonderful, like I was embracing a mountain. But I now knew that as solid as he seemed, he was no mountain.

Who is hotter, Jensen Ackles or Jared Padalecki? The age-old debate continues!)

This time, there were things I'd be giving up forever. My visa to the Land of the Popular, for one thing, and probably even my return ticket to the Borderlands of Respectability.

It was the voice of someone who had known both amazing joy and intense pain, and who knew that ultimately you can't really have one without the other.

Nobody really knows what life is about. We're all just trying to make sense of something that doesn't make much sense.

every life is cinematic—you just need to know when to fade to black.

It's the choices we make, not the experiences we have, that make us who we are.

I was deep behind enemy lines, in the very heart of the enemy camp.

I am what I am. Like the truth is what it is. It's not good or bad, it just is. The truth is neutral. We're the ones who decide if something is good or bad.