Best 217 quotes in «coming out quotes» category

What's that you're holding?" he asked, noticing the pamphlet, still rolled up in her left hand. "Oh, this?" She held it up. "How to Come Out to Your Parents." He widened his eyes. "Something you want to tell me?" "It's not for me. It's for you." She handed it to him. "I don't have to come out to my mother," said Simon. "She already thinks I'm gay because I'm not interested in sports and I haven't had a serious girlfriend yet. Not that she knows of, anyway." "But you have to come out as a vampire," Clary pointed out. "Luke thought you could, you know, use one of the suggested speeches in the pamphlet, except use the word 'undead' instead of--" "I get it, I get it." Simon spread the pamplet open. "Here, I'll practice on you." He cleared his throat. "Mom. I have something to tell you. I'm undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I'm here to tell you that the undead are just like you and me." Simon paused. "Well, okay. Possibly more like me than you." "SIMON." "All right, all right." He went on. "The first thing you need to understand is that I'm the same person I always was. Being undead isn't the most important thing about me. It's just part of who I am. The second thing you should know is that it isn't a choice. I was born this way." Simon squinted at her over the pamphlet. "Sorry, reborn this way.

Unless you count the way the words sink into Neil, the way his life feels a little more solid than it did five minutes before.

When you hear of Gay Pride, remember, it was not born out of a need to celebrate being gay. It evolved out of our need as human beings to break free of oppression and to exist without being criminalized, pathologized or persecuted. Depending on a number of factors, particularly religion, freeing ourselves from gay shame and coming to self-love and acceptance, can not only be an agonising journey, it can take years. Tragically some don't make it. Instead of wondering why there isn't a straight pride be grateful you have never needed one. Celebrate with us.

When someone comes to a pastor or a close friend and says "I think I'm gay", rest assured 99% are. How we respond creates light or darkness. Please be aware that when you've never heard anything positive about being gay and you've laboured secretly over this for ages, you don’t make a declaration like that lightly. It takes an enormous amount of courage to eventually tell someone. This is not an empowering coming out though or finally finding a place of self-acceptance; the statement is cloaked in fear and shame. The statement "I think I'm gay" is not really about doubt or confusion it's more likely they are saying "I'm gay, but it scares the shit out of me and I don’t want to be. Help!" At that point the pastor or friend has the privileged opportunity to provide a place of safety and compassion that will lead them on into self-acceptance and an authentic life. Handled unwisely could lead them into years of internal torment.

What were they going to say when I brought home my first boyfriend? Would I even be able to, or would we keep talking about weather and the Red Sox, pretending nothing had changed?

You don’t get to say it’s not a big thing. This is a big fucking thing, okay? This was supposed to be—this is mine. I’m supposed to decide when and where and who knows and how I want to say it.” Suddenly, my throat gets thick. “So, yeah, you took that from me.

Why did she have to spend the rest of her life coming out over and over and over...? And once she did, would people always expect her to talk about it? It would always be a huge deal, she would always be subjected to questions, and she would always have to defend herself. Would it ever stop feeling like A Thing, a barrier, between her and everyone else?

Yesterday, when you said you told everyone, what did you mean?" "Everyone important, I guess. I mean, I didn't rush out to inform my mailman or anything." "Oh, he knows," Nate said offhandedly. "Oh. Okay," I said, thrown. "Well, I guess I can cross him off the list.

After being in the creative, hermetic state I have been in, coming out has been painful, but it is getting easier.

You see, that’s the thing about a girl, Her kisses leave you breathless Her eyes become your world But it never seems to matter where she stops, lingers or starts She’ll sometimes revive it, sometimes break it, but she will always steal your heart

You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's hidden all his life - which is hypocritical as hell after your ten years in Tirimo.

All people—all lives—are either in a crisis, coming out of a crisis, or headed for a crisis.

Clients are becoming more and more savvy. They know what's happening in the brands; they know the new products that are coming out.

Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went in and took all the food that I wanted, and while coming out I was grabbed.

As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment.

At the end of the day, the only things that are shovel ready around here are the words coming out of Barack Obama and Joe Biden's mouth.

And I have a couple swimsuit calendars I did that are coming out.

A rebellion is something that is developing as an explosion coming out of the righteous grievances of a community of people.

Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.

Coming out of the anti - coming out of the Republican heritage of Abraham Lincoln, Frank Johnson could see it more clearly than Alabamians would, which led to the big confrontations between Frank Johnson and George Wallace.

Coming out's the hardest part, when you're Queen Elvis.

Coming out is the most political thing you can do

Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.

Don't get discouraged if you're hammering away at a sentence or a paragraph or a chapter, and it keeps coming out wrong. You're allowed to get it wrong, as many times as you need to; you only need to get it right once.

Data coming out our ears but we lack narrative.

Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going.

Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?

I am glad The Worst Journey is coming out in Penguins: after all it is largely about penguins.

Even the people who do great jokes, [it's] always coming out of a very real place.

Everyone has a worst time in their life. There's always a worse time. We are all either in a crisis, coming to one or coming out of one.

I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to.

Everything thing we're doing is coming out of the living Word of God.

I am in Ghost Rider but I'm not sure when it's coming out.

I do have a lot of references coming out of the '60s, '70s, and '80s, but I don't consciously think, "I'm going to put this here and this there." It comes out of my unconscious, and I don't want it to be just retro.

I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it.

I could run, but I was throwing 93 mph coming out of high school.

I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.

I don't regret not coming out early. A lot of people felt that I could have been a lottery pick, but we'll never know.

I don't recall an American president basically coming out and criticizing the Israeli public.

I had never heard much about Nashville before coming out here, and that's why it's so surprising, because I'm the biggest enthusiast on the city of Nashville now. I'm looking for a place out here to live.

I don't want my album coming out with a 'G' rating. Nobody would buy it.

I guess [coming out publicly] seems like a weight off my shoulders. I’ve been playing a lot better than I’ve ever played before. I think I’m just enjoying myself and I’m happy.

I feel like I'm on the precipice - just seeing a better version of me coming out.

I'm not coming out trying to prove anything to anyone, like, 'Oh, I'm in assless chaps!' or 'I can't be tamed!' I've already been through that phase. I started at 23, you know?

I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest.

I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.

I'm always blowing the speakers out in studios, like, there's smoke coming out of them. I found out that I'm not built for studio monitors. I record and mix down everything in the headphones and then I bring it to the speakers.

I'm not going to put out a Christmas CD until it's coming out of me naturally.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.