Elliot Wake > Quotes

“For you, happiness is being with a man. For me, happiness is being among friends. Love takes many forms, Will Scarlet. If I must lie to the world to be true to my heart, then I'll lie. I'll cheat, I'll steal, and I'll do it with a smile. Love is the only higher power I answer to, and my love is no less for being chaste.”
― Elliot Wake, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“Sometimes, in a thunderstorm, a lance of white fire would spear down from heaven and split the stone heart of an ancient tree, a crack so deep it seemed to come from the core of the earth. You could feel the skin of the world tense against it.
Robin's kiss felt like that.”
― Elliot Wake, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“She's my north star. The shining light I look to when I don't know where I am. And I'm losing her. I'm losing you, and I don't know how to let you go.”
― Elliot Wake, Bad Boy

“Once you love someone that deeply, it never really stops. It just evolves into other forms.”
― Elliot Wake, Bad Boy

“I wish I was like them,” I told Tuck as we watched Alix and Rashida sharpen their swords. Their bodies moved in rhythm, one girl beginning a motion that the other completed. “Women who are lovers aren’t looked at with revulsion.”
“Women are seen as less than men. That’s why they’re permitted indulgences—they’re pretty pets. Is that so much better?”
― Elliot Wake, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“Now he told me again as I stared up into the night, the stars switching on, disintegrating the sky into glitter, a dark body slowly consumed with light.”
― Elliot Wake, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“Truth was like a kaleidoscope. With every twist, it looked totally different. All the bits rearranged themselves, some coming clear, others growing obscure.”
― Elliot Wake, Bad Boy

“When you don’t force it, sometimes amazing things happen.”
― Elliot Wake, Unteachable

“Do or die.”

“Do, and hopefully not die”
― Elliot Wake, Unteachable

“And that made my heart ache, too—the thought of how much happiness lay scattered across the universe, unrealized, in fragments, waiting for the right twist of fate to bring it together.”
― Elliot Wake, Unteachable

“What are you thinking about?" Blythe said.
"How you're more of a lightning strike than a thunderstorm."
She grinned. "Don't know what that means, but I like it.”
― Elliot Wake, Bad Boy

“The water was a thick black stroke of ink speckled with gold flakes and silver chips, the shattered reflections of a thousand bright windows, shimmering. Her eyes sparkled the same way, filled with a thousand tiny lights.
"You're not looking," she said.
But I was.”
― Elliot Wake, Black Iris

“That’s how you want me, isn’t it?” Her fingers knotted in my hair. “Desperate and jealous. Willing to kill for you.”
― Elliot Wake, Black Iris

“I see the lights every night. It seems like the whole world has figured out how to be happy, but no one’s letting me in on the secret.”
― Elliot Wake

“She grabbed my arm, pulling me close. The sun scattered off the waves and filled her eyes with a thousand tiny lights.
"You're not looking," she said.
But I was.”
― Elliot Wake, Black Iris

“Thanks, Dad, for leaving a huge void in my life that Freud says has to be filled with dick.”
― Elliot Wake, Unteachable

“Sometimes, in a thunderstorm, a lance of white fire would spear down from the heavens and split the stone heart of an ancient tree, a crack so deep it seemed to come from the core of the earth. You could feel the skin of the world tense against it. Robin's kiss felt like that.”
― Elliot Wake, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages