The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle
Matt Cain
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I love you a little bit more than yesterday and a little bit less than tomorrow.”
“He remembered comparing himself to one of Reenie’s pictures that was still being coloured in; he could see now that he’d always be colouring himself in, just as everyone else was. But that was fine. Because the picture he was working on was much richer and much more colourful than it used to be.”
“But if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that trying to be anyone other than yourself will never make you happy. Any road, how do you know people won’t like you if you don’t ever show them the real you?”
“And if I love him a little bit more today, I’ll love him a whole lot more tomorrow.”
“didn’t understand why so many people appeared so comfortable talking about their most intimate experiences. It was clearly something that had been encouraged by celebrity interviews, not to mention the social media that seemed to obsess everyone.”
“Yeah, but one thing I've learned is that if you try to do that, you never do put the past behind you - it just tags along in the present. And it burrows into you like some kind of poison. It's only by facing up to it and dealing with all the feelings it brings up that we can learn from it and move on.”
“Well, I know what it's like when bad stuff happens - really bad stuff. But the thing is, when it comes down to it, it's not the bad stuff that's important. What's important is how you deal with it.”
“Slowly, the gulf between who he was then and the man he'd become since was beginning to close. Have I really changed that much after all?”
“No one ever stops to think I might have lived through experiences that have left me wary of opening myself up.”
“In some ways I'm like a picture that hasn't been colored in yet. Or one that I'm still in the process of coloring in...”
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lgbt, change, trauma, love, overcoming-obstacles, motivational, growing, inspirational, challenges, anxiety, being-yourself, problems, self-realization, growing-up, life, moving-on, growth
