“Every life has a soundtrack.”

“Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.”

“Sometimes, I think my whole life has been about holding onto you.”

“Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be.”

“What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.”

“It is so strange, to encounter an ex. It's as if you're in a foreign film, and what you're saying face-to-face has nothing to do with the subtitles flowing beneath you. We are so careful not to touch, although once upon a time, I slept plastered to him in our bed, like lichen on a rock. We are two strangers who knows every shameful secret, every hidden freckle, every fatal flaw in each other.”

“A level of a house, his father has told him, is called a story. Nathaniel likes that. It makes him feel like maybe he is living between the covers of a book himself. Like maybe everyone in every home is sure to get a happy ending.”