Bill Konigsberg Quotes
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Everybody wanted something from me, and some days it felt like I was being pulled in thirty different directions, and I wondered how anyone figured out how to be all things to all people without going insane.
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The world will make you vulnerable. If you're acting like you're not, that's what you're doing.
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But I do think that when we choose the easy path, where people or society reward us for being what they want us to be, against who we really are, a kind of death occurs. To the soul.
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You can be anything you want, but when you go against who you are inside, it doesn't feel good.
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He said he was scared they’d lock him up. That’s his biggest fear.
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A thought came to me. What do I think about the date with Rafe? Here I am thinking about what everyone else would think, and I haven’t taken even a second to have my own reaction. Weird.
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Wow. Did I just write that? I didn't want who I am to come between us? How could I not have seen that?
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Vulnerability is allowing people to see you exactly as you are, which is really hard, because when you’re vulnerable you can get hurt. Most people armor up with bravado or something, but those people are missing out, because without allowing yourself to be vulnerable, it’s tough to have, like, any emotional experience at all. Letting people in is really vulnerable, and most people—especially introverts—have trouble.
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It’s not, like, denial? In the GSA we joke that bi guys are just gay guys who aren’t ready to admit it yet.
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Actually, tolerance and acceptance are different. To tolerate seems to mean that there is something negative to tolerate, doesn't it?
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I think some people are bi, definitely.
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I mean, if you accept something, you take it for what it is. Tolerance is different. Less.
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I had the strong sensation that I'd underestimated my parents and their devotion to me. Of course they'd be on my side, whether they understood or not. That was just the kind of parents they were.
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Acceptance is an affirmation that you’re good enough.
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And it's hard to express the truth when the world wants you to be someone else.
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I knew that she was right, obviously. But part of me didn't want to. I wanted to have someone to call my own so badly that I just couldn't let it go.
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No one had really been looking at me all the time. Other than me.