48 Quotes by Sam J. Miller

America has fallen and I don’t feel so good myself.

Without your problems, you wouldn’t be who you are. You would be someone else. Someone significantly less awesome.

The lack of imagination among the rich was its own kind of machine, its own species of artificial intelligence.

Depending on what the body you’re born into looks like, you get put in a box marked either Boy or Girl. That box is packed with expectations and requirements, demands and obligations. The box says you can like This, but not That. The box says you can wear This, but not That. The box might fit you perfectly. In that case, everything will be wonderful. Alternately, the box might be so cramped and tight and full of horrible things that you’d rather be dead than spend another minute in it.

You are new here. It is overwhelming, terrifying. Don’t be afraid. Shut your eyes. I’m here. Pinch your nose shut. Its smell is not the smell of your city. You can listen, because every city sounds like chaos. You will even hear your language, if you listen long enough. There is no map here. No map is needed. No manual. Only stories. Which is why I’m here.

The strongest people aren’t the ones who are born strong. They’re the ones who know what it’s like to be weak, and have a reason to get stronger. The ones who’ve been hurt. Who’ve had things they love taken from them. The ones with something to fight for.

Bodybreaking, they called it. What happened when the breaks finally killed you. The moment your mind’s hold on the here and now finally ruptured forever and you broke free from your body.

Straight men will insult and assault and beat and kill gay men because they are terrified. Because masculinity is the foundation they built their whole worldview on, the set of lies that lets them believe they are inherently better than women, and gay people expose how flimsy and arbitrary the whole thing is.

When the worst thing that can possibly happen to you finally happens, you find that you are not afraid of anything.