Top 40 Jay Bell Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Teach me how to fly, my beautiful butterfly.”

— Jay Bell

2. “It’s hotter than Satan’s butt crack out here.”

— Jay Bell

3. “Stupid people hate you for no reason. And stupid people here don’t want us to have fun. There’s no point in getting angry at people you can’t change. All it does is make you feel like crap. That’s exactly what they want. We can’t let them win.”

— Jay Bell

4. “Coming out is something you never stop doing. You start by telling your friends and family. Then you tell new acquaintances or coworkers who invite you out for a drink. Even the telemarketers who call and ask if my wife is home. You don’t have to tell everyone you meet, of course, but coming out is something that accompanies your entire life.”

— Jay Bell

5. “I just wanted to say thank you. For everything. Taking me in, letting me go, showing me what love could be. I’m happy, and I wouldn’t be if it weren’t for you.”

— Jay Bell

6. “There’s a coward and a fool, and both of them are you, My heart is cracked and broken, but yours is frozen through.”

— Jay Bell

7. “Not by blood, or even by marriage, but family is more than that. You find people you love and keep them close to you. That’s what a family is.”

— Jay Bell

8. “Love is worth the pain, but I ate losing people. Maybe I’m crazy, but I’d rather be miserable with you than be miserable without you.”

— Jay Bell

9. “Love is either a curse or a blessing, depending on how the other person feels. So I guess I’m asking. Which is it?”

— Jay Bell

10. “Love isn’t meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame.”

— Jay Bell

11. “To set out into the world, to be surrounded by the unknown and become a stranger. Only then would he be free to reinvent himself. Or fall in love.”

— Jay Bell

12. “The more we love, the more we fear. Rejection, or what others might think, these are just the beginning. In a perfectly happy relationship, we fear losing the other person to disease or chance.”

— Jay Bell

13. “The world could split in the middle, all the way down to Hell, and if Connor was trapped on the other side, David would pull the globe together again just to get back to him. Nothing was going to get in their way, and if anything tried, they would destroy those walls together.”

— Jay Bell

14. “Like a cup of coffee or a hot shower, William’s smile was the perfect way to begin the day. Before school, Kelly would often open the front door to discover that smile waiting for him. Or if it was his turn to drive, he would cruise over to William’s house, park in the driveway and sit on the hood of the car, casually waiting for it to appear. And there it would be. That smile, lighting up the world and making Kelly’s insides buzz.”

— Jay Bell

15. “I am nothing, and I am everything.”

— Jay Bell

16. “Tim considered the school. “Maybe I want to walk down the hallway with you, hand in hand, like I should have done a long time ago.” Ben’s eyes softened. “You don’t have to do this.” “I want to.”

— Jay Bell

17. “Can you get a broken heart without being with someone? Can wanting to fall in love so bad make that happen?”

— Jay Bell

18. “Funny how any sentence that started with “honestly” usually wasn’t.”

— Jay Bell

19. “All of us have an undeniable urge to be loved and to give love in return. In that regard, you can’t do much better than a dog.”

— Jay Bell

20. “Because I might not be the smartest, the biggest, or the strongest, but I’m clever.”

— Jay Bell

21. “Money can’t buy love, but it certainly could rent it.”

— Jay Bell

22. “I don’t have any first times left... I hope that’s OK.”

— Jay Bell

23. “Does love cease to exist the second you kiss another person? Is love that fickle?”

— Jay Bell

24. “Ladies and gentleman, Tim said. May I present to you, our son, Jason Grant!”

— Jay Bell

25. “Kelly tried to soothe his racing heart as he took a seat and leaned back. This was going to be a long night, but he had learned long ago that dark times are best weathered with those you love. And when the dawn of a new day greeted them, he prayed that the skies would be clear, the rest of their days spent together basking in the light.”

— Jay Bell

26. “Don’t be sorry. The only thing love needs to apologize for is being too difficult to understand and too easy to give in to.”

— Jay Bell

27. “I’ve always been in love with the idea of being in love, if that counts.”

— Jay Bell

28. “Gordon had been the first person David came out to. He had paused the game they were playing and blurted: “I’m gay.” Gordon had scrunched up his face and replied, “Well, I’m not.” And that had been that.”

— Jay Bell

29. “Popular kids are just a powerful union of needy, insecure losers.”

— Jay Bell

30. “What did couples talk about after so many years together?”

— Jay Bell

31. “Half the time he seems self-centered, the other half it’s like he lives solely for Ben.”

— Jay Bell

32. “I don’t care what you are, I like you for who you are.”

— Jay Bell

33. “You never stop loving someone.”

— Jay Bell

34. “It’s not any easier. We can’t choose who we fall in love with. Besides, there’s nothing abnormal about two guys being together. Nature made you the way you are and me the way I am. We’re already living normal lives.”

— Jay Bell

35. “I guess I should have known back then. All the guys after him only left flesh wounds. Benjamin managed to get into my bones on day one.”

— Jay Bell

36. “Absolutely. It doesn’t matter if someone loves a guy or a girl. What matters is who they are inside.”

— Jay Bell

37. “Strange how the present could become the past so quickly.”

— Jay Bell

38. “David started rattling off the names of the bands he liked, and in that moment Connor decided to get a tattoo on his forehead that read “I love my kid brother.”

— Jay Bell

39. “It’s called restraint, the part that wants to wander is always there, even for straight people. But commitment is commitment. Once I sign on the dotted line, I’ll devote myself to that person only.”

— Jay Bell

40. “You can’t have both of them,” Allison said. “There’s a reason you never see three old people walking through a park and holding hands. It just doesn’t happen.” Ben.”

— Jay Bell

41. “Fight for yourself if need be, or fight for the other person if he is slipping away. Just don’t give up. Not if you love him and he loves you back.”

— Jay Bell

42. “It’s much easier to just keep moving, keep avoiding the truth.”

— Jay Bell

43. “Let’s just say I’m not eager for time to stop. I’d like to speed it up by a decade or two and see how I feel then.”

— Jay Bell

44. “I don’t know the solution, Daniel, but we’ll never find it if we’re muzzling each other – or worse – banishing anyone from outside our social circle who disagrees with us.”

— Jay Bell