Peter Wentz Quotes

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I have a bit of a consummate victim in my head. That's who I identify with throughout history. When I was 10 I would draw black eyes on myself because I thought it was cool. You're so into people who are tragic. You want to be that so badly. But you probably aren't really the tragic genius that you think you are.

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We are dreamers. We worship love, we hope against hope and toss practicality out the window.

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I wonder if killing yourself is the only thing you can control in your entire life, and that's why it's a sin. Because you're beating God at his own game.

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This is how your heart gets snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away.

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Freud suggests that in order to love someone else, one must love themselves; it's a classic "needs before other needs" argument. Unfortunately, no one really loves themselves. And, if they do, they need to get to know themselves better. Unfortunately, no one is really happy.

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Our culture bombards us with this idea that you're not that, and if you are that, there's something wrong with you, and then we're going to call you that, and then it's an insult. There is a sense of self-empowerment or recapturing who you are by people calling you 'fag,' and being like, 'Yeah, I am a fag.' Even though you're not. What does somebody respond? That dude has nothing to say about that again.

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I've always been a dreamer, have always believed in the power of love and art and loud, life-affirming rock and roll, but, for the first time, I'm starting to have doubts. Can a dream even exist in reality? Or does it turn to stone the second it leaves your mind?

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I've always believed in God. I'm just not so sure he believes in me.

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I think everyone should go crazy at least once in their life. I don't think you've truly lived until you've thought about killing yourself.

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Being ambiguously flamboyant really does help. I've had so many people come up to me and be like, 'I felt OK to come out of the closet after you said this.' When someone says that to me — it's not an event I've ever been through, so I don't know what to compare it to. I don't think I even understand how important that is to someone's life.

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She pulls me toward her, tells me, You're sweet, you know that? I crack a smile. Life will not tear us apart this time. Our hearts will see to it.

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The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.

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There she is, lying in front of me, smoking a cigarette, thinking of something or someone else. And that's how she is stuck in my mind forever. We are two explorers in the dark. Mapless and hopeless. Alone together.

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I want so badly to tell Her it's going to be all right, that I'll leave the band and forget this silly crusade. I want to tell Her that I am ready to settle for this life, that she is all I will ever need in the world, and that we'll never be apart. I want to tell Her that I will protect Her forever. But none of that would be the truth. So I don't say anything at all.

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Whenever you say that homophobia is stupid, you just get called gay.

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Love exists in powder. Love exists in pills. We are all addicts.

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But our love isn't easy because it's not meant to be. It requires work and sacrifice and protection. And I wouldn't want it any other way, not right now, with the morning sun making the curtains glow and Her arms around my neck and the sounds of the street so far away. I'm in it for the long haul, I'm not going away.

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The hardest part of watching someone watching me is making it appear that I'm not watching.

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There's really nowhere else I can go, and even if there were, it wouldn't make a difference because I'd just be running from myself, and you can't do that no matter how hard you try, and trying hard is what got you in this predicament in the first place.

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Let's just make it through tonight, worry about the rest later.

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Just a tiny red sliver remains in the battery icon. I wish humans came with the same kind of indicator... it would make things much easier. You would know how to deal with every person on the planet, and I'd always be in the red.

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When I said that I make out with dudes, there was a slight sense of sexual rebellion in that. And I probably even made it a bigger deal than it was.

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The world spins along outside, the sun
rises and sets, the streets go dark, the lights come on. The future is happening, but it can wait until tomorrow. Neither of us knows what will come next, or where we go from here,
or even what anyone will say about us, but none of it matters. We've got each other right now.

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