Honesty Quotes

“Burying your feelings is like burying a lit match in a pile of gas cans – something has to blow eventually.”
― Seth King, Honesty

“His eyes locked with mine, and I drowned in them. That was odd. I always thought you could only drown in water, never humans.”
― Seth King, Honesty

“Whoever's reading this out there - you deserve to have someone's hands be glued to you, for their eyes to be stuck on you. You deserve for their face to catch on fire when they look at you, for them to lay eyes on you and devote the rest of their day to you. Don't ever let yourself settle for anything less than magic from Dumbledore's freakin' wand. That feeling - you know, that crazy, irrational, my-brain-won't-work-without-you, I'd-make-you-eggs-every-morning-for-the-rest-of-my-life - that feeling is the most important thing you will ever find. No matter what happens in this life, that feeling - that love - will keep you warm, and carry you through. So find that magic feeling and never let anythng take it away from you.”
― Seth King, Honesty

“This was just another side effect of him: he made me feel like I was being murdered by joy.”
― Seth King, Honesty

“You have witnessed dysfunction all your life, and when you grow up, you are going to chase after it. You won’t even know it, not on the surface at least, but you will. You’ll search for people to fix, because that’s what you know - you thrive on chaos, even if you don't know it yet….”
― seth king, Honesty

“The casual kind of cruelty hurt the worst, as it usually rolled off the lips of the ones we loved most. Sometimes we let our loved ones pick and pick and pick at us until suddenly there was nothing left to save.”
― Seth King, Honesty

“Sometimes you couldn’t pinpoint the exact moment you realized you were in love with someone. Your feelings gradually deepened and changed and transformed and took root until one day you turned around and realized your life has bent itself around someone, and you’d never even noticed it. But this was different.”
― Seth King, Honesty

“Underneath it all, I was the same as anyone else: I was dreaming for the love of someone who wouldn’t give it to me.”
― Seth King, Honesty

“Are you my boyfriend?” I whispered, my voice like a little child’s. He was half-asleep, too, and I felt him kiss the back of my hand one last time. “I don’t know,” he mumbled. “But I do know you’re the only person I wanna be alive with.”
― Seth King, Honesty

“I fell in love with you, and I still am in love with you. The way you laughed at something outside the gym, the way your hair stuck up in the front, the way your heart broke when those guys made fun of you – I loved you more than I could bear, from the very first second. That’s why I downloaded the app – I was desperate to find you. But I was terrified of that love. I didn’t want to admit it to myself because it would’ve confirmed everything I hated most about myself, and so I fought it as hard as I could, for way too long. But I am so sorry for every second I let my fear keep me away from you.”
― Seth King, Honesty

“Book lovers were also fools, in a way. Everyone knew they could never find love, because all they did was compare real life to life within the page. And spoiler alert: the page always won.”
― Seth King, Honesty

“As he stood there I wondered more and more about him. What did he go home to? Did he love his father? Did his father love him? Who exactly was this alien? And did he know how happy he made me simply by existing?”
― Seth King, Honesty

“That was the day I realized I could really, truly make people happy just by making them feel comfortable, by making them feel heard, making them feel witnessed, like they mattered.”
― Seth King, Honesty

“What do you mean?” I asked. “About not making space.” “What do I mean? Okay, question time. Do you eat vanilla ice cream?” “Um, sure.” “And do you eat strawberry ice cream?” “Yeah, sometimes.” “And do you like both?” he asked. “Sure.” “No you don’t,” he said. “What?” “You’re lying to yourself. A person is only ever allowed to like one flavor of something, one type of something, and if you say you like both types, you’re delusional and wrong and lying and a coward.” I paused. “You see how ridiculous it is?”
― Seth King, Honesty

“After I watched Brokeback Mountain with my friend Katherine one time, she’d remarked that it “felt almost like a straight romance movie!” and I could remember wanting to shank her. The movie featured two humans falling in love – what else was it supposed to feel like?”
― Seth King, Honesty