If This Gets Out Quotes

“Everyone wants the world to see them as they are. The truth isn’t the problem. The problem is that the world doesn’t always make the truth safe for us to share.”
― Sophie Gonzales, If This Gets Out

“Once you've learned shame, it settles into your skin like a tattoo. You can cover it up, but you can't scrub off the sense of inadequacy.”
― Sophie Gonzales, If This Gets Out

“The freedom to be ourselves, and express whatever truest version of ourselves we know of to the world as we see fit, is the most important freedom we have.”
― Sophie Gonzales, If This Gets Out

“At the crux of it, everyone wants the world to see them as they are. The truth isn’t the problem. The problem is that the world doesn’t always make the truth safe for us to share.”
― Sophie Gonzales, If This Gets Out

“It's been so hard for me to believe that being adored doesn't mean I'm one mistake away from being despised.”
― Sophie Gonzales, If This Gets Out

“But I've never been allowed to cry. My whole life I was taught that crying is a waste of time. Don't cry. Fix it. Sort it out. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. But I can't.”
― Sophie Gonzales, If This Gets Out

“I’ll do whatever I have to do to protect this.”
― Sophie Gonzales, If This Gets Out

“It’ll be okay. No matter what happens, you have me. That’s not going to change. Not as long as you still want me.”
… “I’ll always wat you.”
“Then you’ll always have me.”
― Sophie Gonzales, If This Gets Out

“Problem is, future-me is about to become present-me. I knew there was a flaw in the plan.”
― Sophie Gonzales, If This Gets Out

“The thing about your dreams coming true is that, for a gold-spun moment, you catch a glimpse of what life could be like. Then when you lose it, and you crash back to reality, it’s from such a great height, all you can do is lie there, winded and bruised, while you come to terms with the idea that a happiness like that isn’t meant for you.”
― Sophie Gonzales, If This Gets Out

“I’m sure it’s common to get such miniscule crushes on other people. It doesn’t mean I’m queer. If I felt the way about guys that I felt about guys I’d know it.
… If he was a girl, I’d have known I’d found the next person I’m into. But it’s Ruben. My very male best friend and band mate.
So, essentially, what the fuck?”
― Sophie Gonzales, If This Gets Out

“I have to treat a shirtless Zach like Medusa. No looking, on pain of death”
― Sophie Gonzales, If This Gets Out

“You're my son. If they mess with you, they mess with me.
The words were meant to be supportive, but I was left feeling confused, and a little empty. Because the message received was, I'm the only one who's allowed to hurt and limit you. ”
― Sophie Gonzales, If This Gets Out

“Yeah but he's my- Ruben”
― Cale Dietrich, If This Gets Out

“some see us more clearly. They see us, and they stay. They see us, and yet they seem to like us more than anyone does.”
― Sophie Gonzales, If This Gets Out

“I slow my step as a spark of realization pricks in the back of my mind. Shut it down. Crush the thought. Is the truth that I don't get strong crushes on guys the way I get on girls? Or is the truth that whenever those crushes start to poke their heads up, I squash them and ignore them?”
― Sophie Gonzales, If This Gets Out

“The smile he gives me kind of makes my life.”
― Sophie Gonzales, If This Gets Out

“Ruben responds with a thumbs-up, which I know is just to annoy me. I’ve ranted to him before about how I think they’re passive-aggressive.”
― Sophie Gonzales, If This Gets Out

“At the crux of it, everyone wants the world to see them as they are. The truth isn’t the problem. The problem is the world doesn’t always make the truth safe for us to share.”
― Cale Dietrich, If This Gets Out

“I know what I want, and it’s you.”
― Sophie Gonzales, If This Gets Out

“When Zach touches me … it’s like my skin stops being the barrier that holds me in and the world out. It feels like a boundary he can cross at will, to merge with me and fill me with this fire, from the depths of my chest to the surface of my skin. To make me, the individual, bigger, bursting at the seams, surging outward with something both undefinable and terrifying to lose.
All this to say, I think he’s turned me into a hopeless fucking romantic. If it wasn’t for the fact that I’m loving every second of it, it might occur to me to be indignant.”
― Sophie Gonzales, If This Gets Out

“Zach’s shirtless in my hotel room, which is both amazing, and a travesty on multiple levels.
Essentially, I’m doing my very best not to stare. And it’s, uh, hard.”
― Sophie Gonzales, If This Gets Out

“He places a firm hand on my thigh to steady himself as he takes a picture of the scenery, because he wants me to spontaneously combust, apparently.”
― Sophie Gonzales, If This Gets Out

“It’s going to be great.”
― Sophie Gonzales, If This Gets Out

“Honestly, it’s all kind of overwhelming to think about, and I haven’t given myself the chance to dwell on it yet. It’s been easier to think of it as something that future-me would face. Problem is, future-me is about to become present-me.”
― Sophie Gonzales, If This Gets Out

“This four-day break was meant to be my opportunity to "slow down" and "recharge," but after all that quality time with my parents, I feel more wound up than ever. I guess I'd forgotten what being at home was really like.”
― Cale Dietrich, If This Gets Out

“It's my perception, I'm sure, but when I'm singing solo, everything locks into place.”
― Sophie Gonzales, If This Gets Out