Quotes About Identity

If God says homosexuality is a sin, why didn't he answer my child's many prayers pleading to be changed? Why does God apparently condemn people for something they were born with and that he won't change for them? For both child and parent, these questions can lead to a crisis of faith.

And who would choose to be gay? Who would choose to pit themselves against all odds and make life as difficult as possible if it were really a matter of choice or sexual "preference"? Not too many people I know.

Maybe my story needs to be told specifically because it is less heart wrenching. In spite of periods where I have struggled and been in pain, my story provides generous glimpses into what a Christian attitude toward homosexuality might look like.

Why do people feel the need to put labels on people?

Los lectores siempre se encuentran a sí mismo, de una forma o de otra, en un libro. Leer es un estímulo completamente egoísta. Buscamos inconscientemente lo que nos dice algo. Por muy estrambóticas o improbables que sean las historias que los escritores crean, siempre habrá lectores que les dirán: «¡Increíble! ¡Ha escrito usted mi vida!»

Could it be that they were sick enough at this point of their own lives to get worked up about those of others? That's always the case. We live under the dictates of others' desires. Natalie and François didn't want to become a TV series for their crowd. For the moment, they loved the idea of being two people alone in the world, in the most perfect cliché of romantic schmaltzy serenity.

Readers always find themselves in a book, in one way or another. Reading is a completely egotistical pleasure. Unconsciously we expect books to speak to us. An author can write the most farfetched or implausible story ever, but there will still be readers who will still be readers who will say: 'I don't believe it: you wrote the story of my life!

No se necesita una sesión muy larga para comprender que mi vida es un intento incesante de probarle al mundo que valgo algo.

No he dejado de pensar en usted, y cuando pensaba en usted, eso quería decir que pensaba en mí.

miré las estanterías de libros. Me da la impresión de que se puede saberlo todo de una persona observando los libros que tiene.

A ojos de todos, Pete será para siempre el tipo que estuvo a punto de ser un Beatle.

Elle veut lui dire qu'on peut être à la fois heureux et perdu.

de conclusión: En mi obra de teatro, yo era todos los personajes. He aprendido a tirar por todos los caminos. Y así me convertí en mí misma. La

En mi obra de teatro, yo era todos los personajes. He aprendido a tirar por todos los caminos. Y así me convertí en mí misma.

Un ser humano es un condensado de autoficción.

Desde el principio supe que yo era un genio. Tenía en mí la dosis de sufrimiento necesaria para la formación del genio. No creo haber cambiado con la fama: son los otros los que cambiaron. Fue el mundo entero el que de pronto comprendió quién era yo.

It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.

Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?

Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.

Fiction's about what it is to be a fucking human being.

Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?

Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.

Out of the closet, I had found my natural place on the androgyny quadrant of the gender matrix. I wore my hair long and hung a pair of chandelier earrings on my ears. My sexual orientation, which had always been self-evident, in the words of Quentin Crisp, was also self-claimed.