“I used to imagine Better was a place you could get to. A moment when I would look around and see that Everything Was Fine. But that’s not how this works. Being better isn’t a battle you fight and win.… — Sam J. Miller Copy Share Image
“(…) It would kill her because she’s spent her whole life worrying about How She Messed Up Those Kids, and what better proof of… — Sam J. Miller Copy Share
“Depending on what the body you’re born into looks like, you get put in a box marked either Boy or Girl. That box is… — Sam J. Miller Copy Share
“I used to imagine Better was a place you could get to. A moment when I would look around and see that Everything Was… — Sam J. Miller Copy Share
“Don’t the stars make you feel so small?” Bastien said, and there was a slight roughness around his words from where his lip was… — Sam J. Miller Copy Share
“She thinks I’m a child who needs to be protected from the horrors of grown-ups, because she somehow forgot that the world of children… — Sam J. Miller Copy Share
“Every superhero, every Chosen One, goes through a painful and difficult process of Becoming. On this, all the relevant literature is in agreement. Ask… — Sam J. Miller Copy Share
“This is the hardest rule. The one I still have to keep repeating. The one I accept, on an intellectual level, but still cannot… — Sam J. Miller Copy Share
“I wrapped myself in a thick wide cloud of pheromone smell, a fog that said, Do not look here, there is nothing to see,… — Sam J. Miller Copy Share
“Straight men will insult and assault and beat and kill gay men because they are terrified. Because masculinity is the foundation they built their… — Sam J. Miller Copy Share
“Without your problems, you wouldn’t be who you are. You would be someone else. Someone significantly less awesome.” — Sam J. Miller Copy Share
“Should you ever need a reminder of what a savage animal your body is—should you ever start to doubt that you are chained to… — Sam J. Miller Copy Share
“Bad things will happen to you and they won’t be your fault. Life is a miserable shit-show for lots of very good people. Lots… — Sam J. Miller Copy Share
“saw with razor’s-edge clarity, so plainly that I laughed out loud from the Disney Movie obviousness of it: The greatest power comes from love,… — Sam J. Miller Copy Share
“(...) And through it all I thought of my mother and the lives she didn’t get to live.” — Sam J. Miller Copy Share
