“Young people think they are invincible, that nothing bad will ever happen to them, and then something changes: they fall in love. And the… — Ben Monopoli Copy Share Image
“It's not about who you sleep with, or whether you know about sports or tools or have a pearl-wearing wife or whether commercials make you cry. [...] it's about whether you step up. When something hard comes along. A man steps up. He doesn't dodge it or run away from it or try to push it onto someone else. He… — Ben Monopoli Copy Share
“The place that haunts us and fuels us even as we wonder whether it truly exists.” — Ben Monopoli Copy Share Image
“like a book with nothing on its pages but the promise of an amazing sequel.” — Ben Monopoli Copy Share Image
“I knew from the first moment I saw him that I’d never turn down anything this guy asked of me.” — Ben Monopoli Copy Share Image
“I was bi and my heart was off-limits to no one, at least not for any reason like what they had between their legs… — Ben Monopoli Copy Share Image
“The bathroom door opened and Griff emerged in a cloud of steam, the grand entrance of every B-movie alien I’d ever seen. Maybe this… — Ben Monopoli Copy Share Image
“I have learned, though, that memories aren’t things that have to pile up and overwhelm you. They’re just colors...that shade all the new things… — Ben Monopoli Copy Share Image
“And that’s the best we can hope for from art, you know? That it changes you for the better. That it lights up the… — Ben Monopoli Copy Share Image
“Maybe I’ll take you to a lighthouse and kiss you like in that book about the cranberries everyone has to read in high school.” — Ben Monopoli Copy Share Image
