The Stars Beneath Our Feet Quotes

“Since then I had learned the most important thing: the decisions you make can become your life. Your choices are you.”
― David Barclay Moore, The Stars Beneath Our Feet

“The folks you hang out with can raise you up or bring you down low. Over time, they can make you think a certain way - change who you really are.”
― David Barclay Moore, The Stars Beneath Our Feet

“If you only expose yourself to whatever everybody else does, you'll never create anything new.”
― David Barclay Moore, The Stars Beneath Our Feet

“Breathing was about the only thing regular about how we lived.”
― David Barclay Moore, The Stars Beneath Our Feet

“I guess it's quicker to tear down something than to build it up.”
― David Barclay Moore, The Stars Beneath Our Feet

“When Yvonne had first come over, thirty minutes ago, they had started going at it so loud that I knew the whole building must'a overheard....

Now they calmed down a little, no more shouting, just tvoices. After it had got completely quiet on the other side of the wall, I got scared thinking they might'a strangled each other.”
― David Barclay Moore, The Stars Beneath Our Feet

“butter”
― David Barclay Moore, The Stars Beneath Our Feet

“I wasn’t even sure how that worked. Could you really make somebody gay just by chatting with them? I hoped that I wouldn’t turn out that way, because I talked to a lot of gays. I actually do like them, but they got too much drama to deal with. So many people hate them and call them names that I don’t think it’s something anybody would really pick to be if they had a choice in it. Who would choose to be gay when they knew it was so much easier to be straight?”
― David Barclay Moore, The Stars Beneath Our Feet

“I had learned it was better to share your stuff. You get back more than you think you would.”
― David Barclay Moore, The Stars Beneath Our Feet

“Who was that?' Sunny asked me. " Was that Butteray?"
...
Sunny's moms asked her, "Butteray from the cafe?"

How many Butterays could there be in Harlem? In the world, even?”
― David Barclay Moore, The Stars Beneath Our Feet

“dazed.”
― David Barclay Moore, The Stars Beneath Our Feet

“wobbling.”
― David Barclay Moore, The Stars Beneath Our Feet

“Si no distinguimos nuestro dolor (si no tratamos, por lo menos, de verlo a la cara), más adelante vuelve a surgir. De maneras diferentes, de maneras aberrantes.”
― David Barclay Moore, The Stars Beneath Our Feet

“—Jermaine era la única persona en el mundo con la que podía hablar sin tener que usar palabras. A veces, cuando íbamos caminando por la calle y algún loco pasaba por el lado o algo raro ocurría, Jermaine y yo no teníamos que decirnos nada. Solo nos mirábamos y él sabía exactamente lo que yo estaba pensando.”
― David Barclay Moore, The Stars Beneath Our Feet

“Lo que más deseaba es que dentro de ese paquete envuelto en papel de regalo elegante hubiera una carta de Jermaine. O, tal vez, alguna nota secreta. una nota confesándome que todavía andaba por ahí, revelándome que, por alguna razón, había tenido que fingir su muerte y que vivía escondido.”
― David Barclay Moore, The Stars Beneath Our Feet

“Cada vez que lo veía, papá me preguntaba: "¿Y ese mariposo todavía es amigo de tu mamá?". Yo le decía que sí y, entonces, él empezaba a criticar y a decir que el señor Jonathan se sentía envidioso de la felicidad de él y de mamá al verlos juntos, y que había sido él quien la había convencido de que a ella le gustaban las mujeres, aunque no fuera cierto.
Eso me parecía un poco absurdo. ¿Cómo vas a convencer a alguien de que sea gay solamente conversándole?
Esperaba que eso no fuera así, porque yo hablaba con muchos gais. De hecho, me caen bien, aunque a veces les toca vivir muchos dramas.
Es tanta la gente que los desprecia y los insulta que no creo que nadie escoja ser gay. ¿Para qué iban a escoger ser gais si saben que es mucho más fácil lo otro?”
― David Barclay Moore, The Stars Beneath Our Feet

“Es curioso, porque a mí no se me habría ocurrido pedir algo así, pero ahora que estaba sentado en la habitación con el libro en las manos, parecía como si lo hubiera deseado. Es solo que no lo sabía.”
― David Barclay Moore, The Stars Beneath Our Feet

“—Si solo estás en contacto con lo mismo que hace todo el mundo, nunca vas a crear nada nuevo.”
― David Barclay Moore, The Stars Beneath Our Feet

“If you only expose yourself to whatever everybody else does, you’ll never create anything new.”
― David Barclay Moore, The Stars Beneath Our Feet

“Wallace,”
― David Barclay Moore, The Stars Beneath Our Feet

“Outside in front of the bodega, everybody had left. It had started to shower and people had scattered like cockroaches do when you switch on a light.”
― David Barclay Moore, The Stars Beneath Our Feet