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It’s not that I mind being mistaken for gay, or for a lesbian. It happened all the time when I went anywhere holding hands with Jess, and it never got to me. I liked both words. I still do. They’re beautiful and true in themselves even if
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“Gatsby and I may have been nothing to men like Tom Buchanan, but men like that did not know we were as divine as the heavens. We were boys who had created ourselves. We had formed our own bodies, our own lives, from the ribs of the girls we were once assumed to be.”
― Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix
― Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix
“He said my ambiguity was one of the few things that made me "interesting." Afterwards I cried while talking with Charles about it, saying I don't want to be interesting, I want to be happy.”
― We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
― We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
“I would have sworn to a priest that Gatsby’s smile pulled light in through the windows”
― Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix
― Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix
“He couldn’t stand to look at the truth, even now. All they were—all they had ever been—was a pair of sunflowers who each believed the other was the sun.”
― These Violent Delights
― These Violent Delights
“They wanted each other in the way of flesh wanting to knit itself together over a wound.”
― These Violent Delights
― These Violent Delights
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