What's it like for a young teen of barely 14, trying to cope with all the normal problems of adolescence, and wrestling with the realization that he's gay on top of all that? Juvenalius struggles with accepting himself and with the idea of coming out, as well as trying to find a boy who he can love and be loved back in return. Narrated by him, find out how he deals with it all and how those important to his life help.
JUVENALIUS
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KELLY JONES Juvenalius, 15 and gay, has been raised in a difficult family and has been held in his aunt's Diana ...
JUVENALIUS When you think well of others, cheerful with everyone, find the good in all there is, you are direct...
SISI MODISE She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate obser...
J.D. SALINGER Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no...
J.D. SALINGER You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all ...
J.D. SALINGER He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
J.D. SALINGER Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, lif...
J.D. SALINGER Anyone can learn how to communicate with animals if they are open to the process and willing to prac...
KAREN A. ANDERSON The journey of life is much about connections! One thing connects with another to bring another thin...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings—...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS Stop running from me and listen. I do want you. I want you even knowing if I marry you, I’ve got a...
LISA KLEYPAS Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha...
JEFFREY R. ANDERSON That cat was a spy. You had to take a pot shot at it. It was a very clever German midget dres...
J.D. SALINGER Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard...
NANETTE L. AVERY I love you crookedly because my heart's been unhinged from birth. The doctors gave me strict instru...
MATHIAS MALZIEU Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver.
NANETTE L. AVERY 2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to devel...
JAMES C. DOBSON You don't really love me, or you never would have treated me like you did. You were just afraid of l...
EMILY COLIN He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor...
NEIL GAIMAN The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all.
LALAH DELIA Our little tribal circles, bound by social contracts and selfish mutual need. Everyone working in th...
DAVID WONG Once you have all those emotional aspects in line and you're in sync with the other person, then you...
STEVE CARELL Church is so confusing for Juvenalius. His new pastor preaches nothing but hate and condemnation of ...
JUVENALIUS He clung to her more tightly, knotting his hands in her hair, trying to tell her, with the press of ...
CASSANDRA CLARE I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL My goal has always been to be like a female George Burns. Having had the opportunity to work with hi...
FLORENCE HENDERSON Then it's a personal decision from there. I want him to feel, first of all, it's fixed and he can li...
MIKE RILEY Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help w...
EMILY GIFFIN All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD Everything has it's own time and place,
Transformation becomes effortless when we go with the flow.
SHELLI THOMPSON Cats tend to stalk and pounce, so he's trying to do that as well as play with her. With dogs, they t...
AUTUMN NELSON Something wrong with your child? Feed them and put them to bed. Something wrong with your man? Feed ...
SUSAN CARTWRIGHT Drowning his misery with alcohol and junk food was like sticking plaster on an infected cut. It mask...
JAY NORTHCOTE If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of...
JAMES A. MICHENER If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit
with dignity all the days of...
JAMES A. MICHENER Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
MARGARET MITCHELL He suffers from the same frailties and hormonal-related problems as all sorts of people his age, but...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE Getting on with her life is important. But right now it may be more important to put the feelings ou...
JENNIFER BROWN There's pluses and minuses to it. It all depends on how well he can adapt. Obviously, the coaches he...
DEUCE MCALLISTER Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan...
MARGARET MITCHELL Probably, after all we could say that life is like Dexter... a code... and how good can you work wit...
DEYTH BANGER I think very much of the people, as an old friend said he thought of woman. He said when he lost his...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Don't resist life, flow with it.
JIM GENOVESE Life is more like dancing than wrestling if you follow its rhythm.
JIM GENOVESE You look at how Barack Obama has had to conduct himself as President. It reminds me of Jackie Robins...
ATO ESSANDOH There is always a solution to any problem.
Find opportunities in any circumstance. Never become...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA He had hold of the climber's climbing line in two hands and he was pulling down with all of his weig...
ANDREW PETERSON It all starts with Shaq. We're all so conscious of him, where he is at and trying to double-team him...
KYLE KORVER I think the kids love Andy as he is only just a few years older than them and seems like a normal ki...
PATRICIO APEY By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER Gods and wonders always appear, to attend the birth of kings.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It's clear to me he [Montalvo] is trying as well, ... With the help of his family, I am sure he will...
DENNY CHIN Justin always wrestled in the toughest weight class at states. It was great to see him overcome thos...
BILL ROYER Thus he spent his whole life searching for his own truth, but it remained hidden to him because he h...
ALICE MILLER Juvenalius has problems... though like most kids on the threshold of sexual awareness he only knows ...
JUVENALIUS The soul of a woman is so important to maintain given all that is on our plates. Figuring out how to...
NIECY NASH I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless them, and I find mysel...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Losing something happens in a day. An end takes one day. We all seem to focus on that one day, on th...
C. JOYBELL C. We make fun of him all the time. Rod's a caveman. He barely knows how to use a cell phone. Leave him...
JOE BARRY Deepest place in my mind is my thinking and thoughts....Do not try to understand me...
Otherwis...
MARYUM AHSAM Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different tim...
MARGARET ATWOOD Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it i...
ALEXANDER MACLAREN It's just a miracle to see this kid. He would give a lot of kids hope that have trouble. In sixth th...
FRANK GODINA God love Neil Patrick Harris - how great is that. People grew up with him; they go, 'Oh it's...
BRYAN BATT He had just one arm, and there were all kinds of legends that he was fighting a guy and when he coul...
JACKIE BERRY No! No one who was great in the world will be forgotten, but everyone was great in his own way, and ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD He had loved the library, and had felt, as a boy, as though it had a kind of sentience, and perhaps ...
LAINI TAYLOR He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to ...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ a man of his word who was willing to work with anyone, regardless of party or politics, to help Detr...
JOHN ENGLER He's talented, but he approaches every drill as it if was his last, ... Add to that he is an unbelie...
LORENZO ROMAR If you allow your enemy to steal your faith, he can destroy your life and ultimately kill your relat...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Live with a mission; act with passion.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE Why be an ostrich?
MARGARET MITCHELL He didn't look anything like the blokes on that gay porn channel Rory had clicked on by mistake when...
J.L. MERROW To say that a farm boy knows how to milk a cow is to say that we can send him out to the barn with a...
THOMAS SOWELL That boy got eyes on the front and back and both sides of his head. He got eyes everywhere. He's alw...
CARMELO ANTHONY If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to ...
LARRY MCMURTRY Better to feel nothing, to be numb, than to lose control. It's the only way I know to deal with it.
JULIE KAGAWA Be a blessing to all you are connecting with on social media. Encourage, rejoice and celebrate with ...
JOHN PATRICK HICKEY He was lovable the way a child is lovable, and he was capable of returning love with a childlike pur...
JONATHAN FRANZEN Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit t...
EMILY GIFFIN You can argue with a thousand scholars but not with one fool who thinks he's correct and perfect all...
HESHAN UDUNUWARA From all that urges and admonishes, the romantic turns away. He wants to dream, enjoy, immerse himse...
LEO BAECK Being a cop was all he ever wanted to be, ... He was either at work, or he was doting on his son. He...
PAUL ARNOLD Murderer, monster, madman... Khalid may very well be all of those things. But he's also loved. By me...
RENEE AHDIEH It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle o...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER Menyara's Creole accent was as thick as his mother's jar of refrigerated roux, and Nick loved the so...
SHERRILYN KENYON Water flows because it's willing.
MARTY RUBIN Go with the flow even if there are rapids ahead.
JIM GENOVESE The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.
MARGARET MITCHELL John has distinguished himself with his sound judgment and great leadership skills. He will be a key...
GARTH ANCIER He's been doing that in practices all the time. He's gaining confidence and you can see that first y...
JAMES SHIBEST A departure from the movie with Michael J. Fox, 'Teen Wolf' tells the story of how a group o...
KEAHU KAHUANUI I filled the song with everything I wished I could teach him about life. I tried to reassure him wit...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how;
the Rhetorician can prove that he ...
THOMAS CARLYLE Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT