You’re the One That I Want Quotes

“How are gay kids like us meant to do it? You must feel it too? Too scared to be yourself, too frightened to ask someone out in case they take offence ’cause they’re not gay themselves, no LGBTQ+ society because your school doesn’t want to upset some very vocal parents, too young for gay clubs and dating apps – so what do you do?”
― Simon James Green, You’re the One That I Want

“I feel like I'm making all the mistakes I would have made if I'd been dating people since I was thirteen. Even if you're really just playing at being in a relationship, you're still feeling your way through it at least. You're finding out what it means to be with someone, to care about them, what it means to have someone else in your life like that. I feel like the straight kids all get a roadmap and a head start, and the queer kids get given a faulty compass and a dead leg so they have to limp their way to 'destination relationship' while blindfolded.”
― Simon James Green, You’re the One That I Want

“I sometimes hate this city – when you see the inequality, and the poverty, and when you just want to shut yourself off from the world, that’s when I hate it. But when it’s like this, when I feel part of something bigger than me, when it’s full of fun and energy and hope and love, like it is tonight, then I bloody adore London and I’m proud to call it home.”
― Simon James Green, You're the One That I Want

“I think I should embrace the doughnut, since the doughnut is me, and I am the doughnut.”
― Simon James Green, You’re the One That I Want

“Kissed a boy, nearly had a date, told lies, screwed it up, died lonely and bitter.”
― Simon James Green, You’re the One That I Want

“The wrong people hold you down. But the right people lift you up.”
― Simon James Green, You’re the One That I Want

“Real life isn't a romcom where stupid boys suddenly mend their ways.”
― Simon James Green, You’re the One That I Want

“Because, sure, being a spectator may be safer, and by playing you might get hurt. But you might also feel the soaring high of a massive win - and for that, you really have gotta be in it.”
― Simon James Green, You’re the One That I Want