Beginner's Guide Quotes

“People like us, those who deviated from the standard curve, had to live with a certain inherent sadness knowing the rest of the world could never see the universe through our eyes.”
― Six de los Reyes, Beginner's Guide: Love and Other Chemical Reactions

“People are always telling me to be more in touch with my emotions when they don’t realize how much of it is disappointment and frustration.”
― Six de los Reyes, Beginner's Guide: Love and Other Chemical Reactions

“People think that because they’ve seen something on television or read something on the internet, they have a fair grasp of the material that made up just about every living thing on this planet.”
― Six de los Reyes, Beginner's Guide: Love and Other Chemical Reactions

“I, however, have a complicated relationship with social media; it was a necessary evil I had to live with. But just because I was on it, didn’t mean I had to be active on it.”
― Six de los Reyes, Beginner's Guide: Love and Other Chemical Reactions

“You should think about your ovaries!” Tita Maricris was not an obstetrician or a gynecologist so I did not find it necessary to accept her commentary on my internal organs.”
― Six de los Reyes, Beginner's Guide: Love and Other Chemical Reactions

“Czarina is twenty-five!” chorused Tita Malou. “Aren’t you feeling a little left behind?”

The first time I was asked this, I had answered, “Why would I feel left behind?” My mother had taken me aside to explain to me that the correct answer was to simply nod and smile. So nod and smile I did, even if I didn’t feel like, or understand why I should be, nodding and smiling at all.”
― Six de los Reyes, Beginner's Guide: Love and Other Chemical Reactions

“It’s not boring to you. You’re a scientist. This is your thing. This is what you willingly lose sleep for. It’s not boring or not important. It’s your life. I’m sorry you had someone tell you to stop talking about the things you love. I might not understand everything you say, but I’ll never, never tell you to shut up.”
― Six de los Reyes, Beginner's Guide: Love and Other Chemical Reactions

“Who was it who told you to shut up. Who told you to shut up the first time? Who said what you do is boring? Who said you were boring?”
― Six de los Reyes, Beginner's Guide: Love and Other Chemical Reactions

“I don’t want to change me,” I answered. “That’s why I set up the parameters of the Boyfriend Experiment the way I did. Because this is who I am. And I really like my brain, and I just want someone who understands it. Someone whose brain I can also understand.”
― Six de los Reyes, Beginner's Guide: Love and Other Chemical Reactions

“The quality of a man’s testicles is not your responsibility.”
― Six de los Reyes, Beginner's Guide: Love and Other Chemical Reactions