Jay Bell Quotes

#1. I've been waiting for you without even knowing it.

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#2. Do you see what I mean now? We can be anything we want to each other. I'm not scared to admit who I'm interested in, or ashamed to have feelings for anyone, but I'm desperate to define them either. (Victor)

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#3. Popular kids are just a powerful union of needy, insecure losers.

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#4. Why couldn't people's insides match their outsides? The world would be such a wonderful place if the nicer someone was, the more beautiful they became.

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#5. Ben let a slow smile play over his face. He loved this part. It always felt like revealing to a disbeliever that he had magical powers or something.

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#6. Can you get a broken heart without being with someone? Can wanting to fall in love so bad make that happen?

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#7. There are people in this world who, after you meet them, you walk away a better person. No matter how okay you were before, they have a way of making you even better.

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#8. Love is worth the pain, but I ate losing people. Maybe I'm crazy, but I'd rather be miserable with you than be miserable without you.

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#9. And history felt like a conjuring trick. All of this had been in plain view the entire time, but only now did the magician allow Joey to see it all.

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#10. Absolutely. It doesn't matter if someone loves a guy or a girl. What matters is who they are inside.

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#11. Yeah, and I honestly don't hold it against you anymore. Ben's an amazing guy, and I bet losing someone like that hurt pretty damn bad. You both paid for what happened, which is a shame, because love shouldn't have a price.

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#12. You never stop loving someone.

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#13. Ben wore the same goofy smile as in the photo. Take that, new guy! I can make him happy too!

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#14. I don't have any first times left ... I hope that's OK.

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#15. Teach me how to fly, my beautiful butterfly.

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#16. He was so handsome, so beautiful. Inside and out.

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#17. Falling in love is a subtle process, a connection sparked by attraction, tested by compatibility, and forged by memory.

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#18. I am nothing, and I am everything.

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#19. Just be careful. Passion is a bridge that connects love and hate. When you're standing in the middle of that bridge, don't let yourself get turned around. You've got to make sure you know which direction you're heading. Watch yourself.

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#20. Does love cease to exist the second you kiss another person? Is love that fickle?

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#21. To the untrained eye, Ben had nothing, at least by the bizarre rules that governed high school. But really, Ben was one of the few who wasn't pretending, one of the few who was free.

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#22. What's it say about a person when they know they have a problem but never do anything to fix it?" Eric smiled. "That they're human.

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#23. Love isn't meant to be hidden away. Life is too short for shame.

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#24. Strange how the present could become the past so quickly.

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#25. He looks into my eyes,
mine mirrored in his,
and we each see a boy,
lost in pauper's bliss.

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#26. My best friend is straight and we sleep together." Jace blurted out.
"Sounds like you should be on a talk show."
Jace's face started to burn. "Not like that. I mean we share the bed.

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#27. What did couples talk about after so many years together?

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#28. There's a coward and a fool, and both of them are you, My heart is cracked and broken, but yours is frozen through.

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#29. People were clueless. All
they ever went by was appearance and rumor.

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#30. You know how they say you can never go home again?
Yeah.
They're full of it. The truth is, you can never leave home. Not completely.

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#31. Ladies and gentleman, Tim said. May I present to you, our son, Jason Grant!

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#32. Tim considered the school. "Maybe I want to walk down the hallway with you, hand in hand, like I should have done a long time ago." Ben's eyes softened. "You don't have to do this." "I want to.

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#33. You know that old saying about home being where the heart is? I don't think that refers to your own. It's the hearts of other people, the ones you love, that makes a home.

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#34. I am sure the ocean catches fire ocassionally.

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#35. It's not any easier. We can't choose who we fall in love with. Besides, there's nothing abnormal about two guys being together. Nature made you the way you are and me the way I am. We're already living normal lives.

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#36. I've always been in love with the idea of being in love, if that counts.

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#37. Love isn't meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame.

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#38. Some ghosts haunt you for life. The best you can do is make room on the couch and get used to living with them.

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#39. Love is either a curse or a blessing, depending on how the other person feels. So I guess I'm asking. Which is it?

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#40. Coffee is one of life's little miracles. It gives you energy when you're tired, warms you when you're cold, and gives you something to hide behind when life keeps throwing shit your way.

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#41. There's nothing logical about love," Michelle said. "If there was, Valentine's Day cards would be covered in brains instead of hearts.

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#42. I love my grandparents, my aunts and uncles, but I'd take a bullet for my parents or my sister without a second thought."
"Dude," Greg whispered,"you wouldn't take one for your granny?"
"No one's going to shoot my grandma," Jace said dismissively.

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#43. The more we love, the more we fear. Rejection, or what others might think, these are just the beginning. In a perfectly happy relationship, we fear losing the other person to disease or chance.

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#44. Adrien treated heterosexuality like an urban legend.

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#45. I just wanted to say thank you. For everything. Taking me in, letting me go, showing me what love could be. I'm happy, and I wouldn't be if it weren't for you.

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#46. I guess I should have known back then. All the guys after him only left flesh wounds. Benjamin managed to get into my bones on day one.

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#47. Because I might not be the smartest, the biggest, or the strongest, but I'm clever.

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#48. Not by blood, or even by marriage, but family is more than that. You find people you love and keep them close to you. That's what a family is.

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#49. Some people think ignoring their inner child makes them seem grown-up. When I see someone ignoring a crying child, I think they're an asshole.

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#50. Don't be sorry. The only thing love needs to apologize for is being too difficult to understand and too easy to give in to.

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#51. Funny how any sentence that started with "honestly" usually wasn't.

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#52. I need my meds. And shock therapy. And maybe an enema!

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#53. It's called restraint, the part that wants to wander is always there, even for straight people. But commitment is commitment. Once I sign on the dotted line, I'll devote myself to that person only.

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#54. Half the time he seems self-centered, the other half it's like he lives solely for Ben.

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#55. Happy Couples are boring.

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