The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Emily M. Danforth
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Maybe I still haven't become me. I don't know how you tell for sure when you finally have.”
“I just liked girls because I couldn't help not to.”
“...and there I was sending all the wrong signals to the right people in the wrong ways. Again, again, again.”
“In the embrace's release I caught the scent again. Unmistakable. Marijuana. These homos were high as kites.”
“But if renting all those movies had taught me anything more than how to lose myself in them, it was that you only actually have perfectly profound little moments like that in real life if you recognize them yourself, do all the fancy shot work and editing in your head, usually in the very seconds that whatever is happening is happening. And even if you do manage to do so, just about never does anyone else you’re with at the time experience that exact same kind of moment, and it’s impossible to explain it as it’s happening, and then the moment is over.”
“You can't catch somebody doing something when they're not hiding.”
“I felt all the ways in which this world seemed so, so enormous--the height of the trees, the hush and tick of the forest, the shift of the sunlight and shadows--but also so, so removed.”
“How could I pretend to be a victim when I was so willing to sin?”
“But there was a fire waiting. And there was a little meal laid out on a blanket. And there was a whole world beyond that shoreline, beyond the forest, beyond the knuckle mountains, beyond, beyond, beyond, not beneath the surface at all, but beyond and waiting.”
“I told myself that I didn't need any of that shit, but there it was, repeated to me day after day after day. And when you're surrounded by a bunch of mostly strangers experiencing the same thing, unable to call home, tethered to routine on ranchland miles away from anybody who might have known you before, might have been able to recognize the real you if you told them you couldn't remember who she was, it's not really like being real at all. It's plastic living. It's living in a diorama. It's living the life of one of those prehistoric insects encased in amber: suspended, frozen, dead but not, you don't know for sure.”
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Book Keywords:
endings, lgbt, inspirational
