Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel Quotes

“What do you want?
I want to stop living in fear. I want to stop coming up with excuses about why I'm not interested in dating. I want my family to know me. I want to get to learn more about Lisa. I want to stop feeling like everything I am is inadequate or makes me unworthy of love because of something I can't help.”
― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel

“It’s the ambiguity that throws people; they want to know which box to put you in.”
― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel

“How do people do this? How do people work up the courage to be themselves even if it means facing rejection from people who love them? Why don’t people get medals for this?”
― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel

“I’m not heterophobic or anything. I just wish I didn’t have to watch them express their lust for each other all the time.”
― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel

“I was doing fine until you were so ridiculously sweet at just the right times.”
― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel

“You’re not a phase, Leila. If anything, you’re the only thing in my life that makes sense these days.” I”
― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel

“I love you. You’re my whole reason to exist. That’s why this is hard.”
― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel

“I wish I had gaydar. I wish it were something you could pick up in a store.”
― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel

“I wish there was a manual on how to come out and what a young gay person is supposed to do. Like,”
― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel

“And then I knew for sure what I had been trying to avoid for so long. Everything rushed to the surface. I cried as I remembered throwing the dress I had received for my third birthday on the floor. I cried as I remembered wanting to be best friends with a girl in fifth grade because she was so pretty. I cried as I remembered always rescuing the girl, played by a stuffed animal, while pretending to be Indiana Jones. I”
― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel

“It’s like finding a magical unicorn in a high school full of cattle.”
― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel

“This thing. This relationship? Are we going to sign our parents up at PFLAG and wear matching T-shirts that say: I’M NOT A LESBIAN BUT MY GIRLFRIEND IS?”
― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel

“We all seemed to categorize ourselves without ever explicitly saying anything. Where”
― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel

“He gives me a hug before walking briskly out of the performance center. My traditional, Iranian, conservative father, a teddy bear in a suit.”
― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel

“No,” my mom says firmly. “I didn’t raise you to be that way.” I bury my face in my hands. I don’t ever want to take my hands away. “Stop. Stop crying. It’s okay.” I feel the weight of the sofa cushion shift as my mom stands up to walk away.”
― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel

“It sounds like horses neighing, carrying us off to a long overdue ball.”
― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel

“It’s not a big deal. I think it makes you interesting. Plus,”
― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel

“The class is silent again. I hate when this happens. I’ve never done well with awkward silences or pauses. I”
― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel