Brandon Stanton Quotes

These are the battles being fought all around us, just beneath the surface of polite society. Beneath the small talk. Beneath the sports, and the weather, and the politics - there’s a lot of pain.

I was married to a woman when I met him. Why did you marry a woman?
Because I thought being gay was a choice. Until the honeymoon.

The more times I fall in love, the less sure I am about love.

If you love the wrong one so much, just imagine how much you can love the right one.

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

I didn’t even really like animals. But my daughter said she wanted a pet. So I brought home this kitten, and told my daughter: ‘It’s your responsibility. I’m not going to get involved.’ But now the kitten loves me more than the girl. I call him JJ. He’s always the first one to greet me when I come home. When I leave for work, he lays on my flip-flops by the door. He always wants to be with me. Right now we’re coming back from a trip to the store. My daughter is a little jealous. She’s always trying to steal him from me.” MEDELLíN, COLOMBIA

It’s French for ‘army of shadows.’ ”
“And what does that mean to you?”
“I was going through a really rough time in my life, and it felt
like a whole army was after me. But when I started feeling
better, I realized it was nothing but an army of shadows.

HONY is one of the only things keeping people from getting lost in the matrix.

I really wanted to take her photo, so I walked up to the nearest adult and asked, 'Does she belong to you?' Suddenly the music stopped, and I heard: 'I belong to myself!

I want to change the world but I don't know how.

She had the most beautiful awkwardness

My dad died in 9/11. They opened up the museum to families today, so I went this morning. My plan was to go to work after, but I just couldn’t do it.”“What happened to him?”“He was a cop. He actually had the day off. But as soon as he heard, he drove into the city and got there just in time for the second tower to fall. A witness said that my dad had started to run when the tower fell, but turned back because a trapped woman was calling to him.”“What do you remember?”“I was in science class. And my teacher told us that there had been a plane crash. That’s all she said. Then I noticed all these kids around me getting phone calls and text messages, and they’d run out of class. So I knew something big was happening. Soon we got let out of school. On the ride home, I remember thinking that my dad was going to be working overtime on this. I imagined he’d be down there everyday, saving people. ‘I bet I won’t see him for weeks,’ I said.

I’m homosexual and I’m afraid about what my future will be and that people won’t like me.

I went to a psychic the day before I met him. She told me I was about to meet the woman of my dreams. I said: 'I'm gay.

The sadness is under the thoughts. It's like when you're on a camping trip, and it's really cold, and you put on extra socks and an extra sweater, but you still can't get warm, because the coldness is in your bones.