Beautiful on the Outside Quotes

“If you’re going to be a mess, at least choreograph your own disaster.”
― Adam Rippon, Beautiful on the Outside

“Just like Toni Braxton couldn't unbreak her heart, I couldn't unbreak my foot.”
― Adam Rippon, Beautiful on the Outside

“Even when hate isn't directed explicitly towards you, you can feel it in the air, like some corrosive mist that you can't wash off.”
― Adam Rippon, Beautiful on the Outside

“My superpower is that I think everyone is my friend, and that’s the way I treated them. I brought them right down to my level and acted like we already had a bond, and we established one. It works every time, even with people who might not normally accept someone like me.

I think being gay is a fun fact about me. It’s like any other bit of biographical trivia: I’m from Pennsylvania, I have five siblings, I get Brazilian blowouts, and I’m gay. They’re all fun facts. (The fun fact of being gay might influence the fun fact of getting the blowouts, but who’s to say?)

When I treat being gay like that, it doesn’t keep me from talking to someone at a party, having a good time with them, or even establishing a friendship. And it doesn’t keep them from associating with me. Fun facts have a way of doing that.”
― Adam Rippon, Beautiful on the Outside

“Just by looking at me, you might think I’m perfect, but that mostly has to do with the number of Korean face masks I apply every week.”
― Adam Rippon, Beautiful on the Outside

“I approached it with an intensity that burned brighter than me waiting for Britney Spears to post something on her Instagram story. Anything: a picture of corn, a runway walk, a picture of her in the gym where you can see her collection of tiny furniture—I live for it all.”
― Adam Rippon, Beautiful on the Outside

“Does a Millennial even exist if he doesn't have a phone plan?”
― Adam Rippon, Beautiful on the Outside

“Every competition I entered I could hear “Please bring honor to us all” from the movie Mulan in my head, and just like Mulan, I didn’t know the girl staring back at me when she looked at herself in the river in full drag.”
― Adam Rippon, Beautiful on the Outside

“I mean, am I wrong? Everyone IS a little bit gay.”
― Adam Rippon, Beautiful on the Outside

“Yes, that is the gayest sentence in this entire book.”
― Adam Rippon, Beautiful on the Outside