30 Quotes About Socialization

Boys don’t cry—or at least that’s what everybody’s supposed to believe.

An adult is a child adulterated.

Which is worse? What people think about you, or that they don't think about you?

Somewhere along the line, I had bought into the idea, so pervasive in evangelical culture, that reading the right books and listening to the right music will make you ("inspire you to be") a better Christian. Somehow, I had confused the trappings of faith with faith itself.

So the best advice I could give a fifteen-year-old stuck in an outdated school somewhere in Mexico, India or Alabama is: don’t rely on the adults too much. Most of them mean well, but they just don’t understand the world.

It was much easier to explain the veil than to answer questions about the wounds.

Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.

Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.

We might miss the days of being unreachable.