The Guncle

Final Guncle Rule. There are two tragedies in life: one is not getting what you want, the other is getting it.

Final Guncle Rule. There are two tragedies in life: one is not getting what you want, the other is getting it.

He looked older, but he liked it. He had lived a life and survived it.

it’s painful to be loved. Intolerable even, at times.

“You’re not confused, you’re lazy.”

How can you tell where you’re going when you’re always looking up at the past?

I’ve never seen more stars and been so lost.

“You think you’re so complicated. That you exist on a higher plane above everyone and everything else, thinking we can’t understand you. But you don’t and we do. You promised yourself you would never get that close to anyone again? And now all these years later you have allowed yourself. Or maybe not even allow—kids don’t give you much of a choice. But you feel something, and you’re scared and you’re trying to run from it and, goddammit, I won’t let you.

Books should be an experience, he thought, not a trophy for having read them.

“What do you think gay people do? Have done for generations? We adopt a safe version of ourselves for the public, for protection, and then as adults we excavate our true selves from the parts we’ve invented to protect us. It’s the most important work of queer lives.”