“I wasn't above bragging. Besides, I was damn proud of myself.”
“...she'd also said more than once that I wasn't half as clever as I thought I was. Considering what I thought of myself, that still made me pretty damn clever.”
“I started to be really proud of the fact I was gay even though I wasn't”
“Because as proud as I am of you, I need to do something that makes me proud of myself" (Harper)”
“This is not to say that I wasn't completely repulsed. I mean, I wasn't exactly proud that my stepbrotherwas in there tongue wrestling with the second stupidest person in our class, after himself.”
“So you’re reluctant, I said to myself. Many, many people are reluctant. It’s like having feet. It’s nothing to brag about.”