Simon Spier Quotes

#1. But curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

#2. The way I feel about him is like a heartbeat -- soft and persistent, underlying everything.

Becky Albertalli

#3. I mean, I feel secure in my masculinity, too. Being secure in you masculinity isn't the same as being straight.

Becky Albertalli

#4. Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch television.

Victoria Wood

#5. We might climb a tree, at least.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. Why is straight the default? Everyone should have to declare one way or another, and it shouldn't be this big awkward thing whether you're straight, gay, bi, or whatever. I'm just saying.

Becky Albertalli

#7. The great thing I like about the sci-fi genre is there's a lot of different latitude for a lot of different kinds of behavior. You can be a very larger-than-life villain, or a very naturalistic villain, and all of it seems to fit.

Mark Pellegrino

#8. Heresy and progress often look much alike.

Joe Abercrombie

#9. It's stillness and pressure and rhythm and breathing.

Becky Albertalli

#10. Yessuh, you done had your share of rough seas. I reckon you don't need to have been on a big ship like my papa was to know what a hard journey feels like.

La'Chris Jordan

#11. And this gay thing. It feels so big. It's almost insurmountable. I don't know how to tell them something like this and still come out of it feeling like Simon. Because if Leah and Nick don't recognize me, I don't even recognize myself anymore.

Becky Albertalli

#12. Expect the universe to support your dream. It will.

Julia Cameron

#13. Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.

Jim DeMint

#14. A person doesn't demonstrate independence by rebelling. You do it by shouldering responsibilities, making wise, thoughtful decisions.

Janette Oke

#15. One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

Barbara Tuchman

#16. I don't even know. I'm just so sick of straight people who can't get their shit together.

Becky Albertalli

#17. Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

John Betjeman

#18. Fear clogged human potential.

Toba Beta

#19. But I'm tired of coming out. All I ever do is come out. I try not to change, but I keep changing, in all these tiny ways. I get a girlfriend. I have a beer. And every freaking time, I have to reintroduce myself to the universe all over again.

Becky Albertalli

#20. There is, however, a change going on in the world. There's far more interest in drawing now than there has been in a long, long time. Schools are beginning to teach drawing again in a serious and meaningful way.

Leonard Baskin

#21. Never let anyone use your toothbrush or your pen. -Author Wllm Worth

Wllm Worth