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Highly Illogical Behavior QUOTES

Highly Illogical Behavior QUOTES

1 " But she believed there was a thin line between accepting one's fears and giving in to them altogether. "

― John Corey Whaley , Highly Illogical Behavior

2 " What he feared the most was that all this hiding had made it impossible for him to ever be found again. "

― John Corey Whaley , Highly Illogical Behavior

3 " I don't want to lie about who I am, even if it doesn't matter. It's who I am. It's part of me. "

― John Corey Whaley , Highly Illogical Behavior

4 " Solomon had good days and he had bad days, but the good had far outnumbered the bad since Lisa and Clark had started coming around. Sometimes, though, they'd show up and he's look completely exhausted, drained of all his charm and moving in slow motion. They could do that to him—the attacks. Something about the physical response to panic can drain all the energy out of a person, and it doesn't matter what causes it or how long it lasts. What Solomon had was unforgiving and sneaky and as smart as any other illness. It was like a virus or cancer that would hide just long enough to fool him into thinking it was gone. And because it showed up when it damn well pleased, he'd learned to be honest about it, knowing that embarrassment only made it worse. "

― John Corey Whaley , Highly Illogical Behavior

5 " But at home, that same day he'd jumped into the fountain, he'd gotten so anxious, pacing around the living room listening to his parents try to calm him, that he suddenly just lost it completely and slapped his face. He immediately started crying, confused and guilty, looking up at his parents like he had no idea how it happened. And, really, that's the way it always was with the hitting. It would happen so fast, his body shaking to release the tension that built up from all the thoughts swirling through his mind and all the air he was having trouble breathing and all the loud beating of his own heart ringing in his ears. It had to get out and that was the path it chose. Slap. Instant relief. "

― John Corey Whaley , Highly Illogical Behavior

6 " He was an astronaut without a suit, but he was still breathing. "

― John Corey Whaley , Highly Illogical Behavior

7 " As smart as I am, it took a boy stuck in his house to teach me that sometimes it doesn't matter where you are at all. It only matters whos with you. "

― John Corey Whaley , Highly Illogical Behavior

8 " — 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

9 " She believed in herself maybe more than other people believed in God or the devil or Heaven or Hell. "

― John Corey Whaley , Highly Illogical Behavior

10 " And, long after Clark had gone home, Solomon stayed up wondering if everyone falls in love with someone who can't love them back. "

― John Corey Whaley , Highly Illogical Behavior

11 " What he feared most was that all this hiding had made it impossible for him to ever be found again. "

― John Corey Whaley , Highly Illogical Behavior

12 " Jealous of the crazy gay kid. That doesn't sound right."
"Hey, Sol," she said, her tone getting serious for a second.
"Those are two things about you out of a million. Don't box yourself in. "

― John Corey Whaley , Highly Illogical Behavior

13 " You've made a new friend. You say you're going in the backyard soon. You're getting better, kiddo."
"Please don't say that."
"Why not? Why shouldn't we celebrate it?"
"Because it's just too much, okay? It's not that big a deal."
"It's big enough," she said. "Who knows, in a few years you could be ready to face the world again."
"Trust me," he said. "It's not a switch I can turn on and off, Grandma. "

― John Corey Whaley , Highly Illogical Behavior

14 " We’re just floating in space trying to figure out what it means to be human. "

― John Corey Whaley , Highly Illogical Behavior

15 " You’re like Lady Macbeth without the murder.” “Thank you. You have no idea how much of a compliment that is to me. "

― John Corey Whaley , Highly Illogical Behavior

16 " He was afraid of the world, afraid it would find a way to swallow him up. But, maybe everyone was sometimes. "

― John Corey Whaley , Highly Illogical Behavior

17 " And then he spent three years wondering why everyone found that so hard to understand. All he was doing was living instead of dying. Some people get cancer. Some people get crazy. Nobody tries to take the chemo away. "

― John Corey Whaley , Highly Illogical Behavior

18 " There are no boring places, only boring people, "

― John Corey Whaley , Highly Illogical Behavior

19 " That’s what we do sometimes. We let people disappear. We want them to. If everyone just stays quiet and out of the way, then the rest of us can pretend everything’s fine. But everything is not fine. "

― John Corey Whaley , Highly Illogical Behavior

20 " She knew it was weird that she'd reached out to him the way she had. But she also knew that there were a lot of people in the world who regretted never doing the things they felt were right because they were afraid of seeming strange or crazy. Lisa wouldn't settle for that sort of mediocre existence, one bound by invisible social cues. And she had a good feeling that someone like Solomon Reed would appreciate that. "

― John Corey Whaley , Highly Illogical Behavior