That's What Friends Are For Quotes

“so maybe say thank you on occasion instead of gagging when you see an older person at a bar for your gift of being able to walk around in the world today without being ashamed of who you are and identifying as you please.”
― Wade Rouse, That's What Friends Are For

“...A body pocked by landmines left by a lifetime of war? And yet I have survived. To be here. Right here. Right now. Have I made it to this point so that finally—for once—I can see myself clearly? The sunlight glimmers. This same light, this same mountain that watches over us in the near distance will still be here long after I am gone. Shouldn’t I view myself—shouldn’t we all view ourselves—as eternally majestic?”
― Wade Rouse, That's What Friends Are For

“We’ve learned to use humor as a way to laugh at the cruelty of the world,” I explain. “It lessens the pain. It gives us a way to make sense of life. It also brings people in when we want, or keeps them at a distance. It’s long been the gay man’s secret weapon, sort of like mayonnaise is to straight people when they cook.”
― Wade Rouse, That's What Friends Are For

“Humor is the great connector and deflector.”
― Wade Rouse, That's What Friends Are For