“Do you ever think about the ocean?" Nick asked me. "What about it?" I said. "Like what could live down there? Like how there's as much life down there as up here? Maybe more?" "God Lives Underwater," said someone. "That's… — Blake Nelson Copy Share Image
“It's hard to imagine talking to Lucy. But I can imagine sleeping with her. I have been imagining it quite regularly. I can't stop imagining it. Maybe it's time for my first Lucy Branch, my first truly physical relationship. And why do I assume it would be a bad thing? Maybe it's better with someone different from you. I could… — Blake Nelson Copy Share
“All the girls stared at me with hatred in their eyes. It was a big drama that had to be acted out. But deep… — Blake Nelson Copy Share Image
“This is the typical fallacy on which all of CONSUMER AMERICA is based. Some piece of useless crap will make people like you.” — Blake Nelson Copy Share Image
“But what were you supposed to do with that weight? Once it was on you? Just be a man? Just suck it up? Maybe you were. Maybe that was the real test. Maybe that is exactly the thing that made you a man: the ability to function with the worst possible secrets in your brain. Which was why so many… — Blake Nelson Copy Share
“He holds me. I am his in a way he probably isn't even aware of. Boys shouldn't know what power they have. They would panic probably or just mess things up. But boys are who you give yourself to. Not your parents or your teachers or your "future". You give yourself to a boy. And then you go for long… — Blake Nelson Copy Share
No matter what I do now, there are certain doors I have already closed, certain opportunities I'll never get back. There's nothing to be… — Blake Nelson Copy Share Image
“I denounce the do-gooders, the feel-gooders, the “activist clubs,” and anyone else who makes people feel like the problem is being taken care of.… — Blake Nelson Copy Share Image
“I watch Stewart. He has the most interesting face. It is beautiful, young, almost childlike, and yet with a power and authority in his… — Blake Nelson Copy Share Image
“I stood there, watching her. The whole world was a dream, I realized. Everyone was acting in a bad soap opera. The whole world… — Blake Nelson Copy Share Image
“I said I looked like a dork and she said that was true, but there was something classic about my dorkiness. I was so… — Blake Nelson Copy Share Image
