35 Quotes by Christopher Bollen

Everyone loves a dead artist. It’s the living ones that people can’t tolerate.

Mills was experienced enough to understand what gay men were often forced to be in this world: romantic opportunists.

They were young and gay and the femininity of their teenage years had only recently hardened into the muscle of a competitive sexual economy. Their muscles met the demands of the city, and the city met the demands of their muscles.

She had no way of evaluating the beauty of someone so young. All young people looked beautiful to her now.

Now young people have the Internet and a zillion phone apps so you don’t need an actual place to congregate. You can be everywhere, nowhere, a floating message-spewing entity. We used to rely on drugs to get that sensation.

If the Internet were planet Earth, the amount of space devoted to pregnancies, motherhood, infants, and toddlers would surely fill a continent. Of course, the Internet had an enormous investment in the subject: those future babies would be its next generation of users.

Paul needed to come out, not as gay or straight, but as human.

Women had cup sizes to track their development. Men had a ruler and hope.

Sometimes it seemed like the whole point of life was not to die the same death as your father.