" — Do they know? That you're gay?
— Why waste their time with it? It's not like it'll ever be an issue anyway.
— Yeah, but, it's who you are, right?
— I guess so, — he said. — I don't really know how to be any way else.
— When did you know?
— I was twelve, maybe. Something I just knew one day, even though I hadn't known it the day before.
— So it's like that, huh? A feeling? Not just being into other dudes?
— Oh no, it's that too. Of course it's that. But it's more, I think. Not so much a feeling as a fact, like having blue eyes or brown hair. It's just maybe something you don't discover until you're ready to understand it better.
— Like being straight, — she said. Only we don't have to deal with all that closet bullshit.
— Bingo, — he said. "

― John Corey Whaley , Highly Illogical Behavior