Helena Greer > Quotes

“But also, there’s this Ocean Vuong quote about how being queer saved his life, and in a bigger way, that’s what being bi means to me. If I’d grown up in my house and I’d not had this piece of me that refused to bow to expectations, that grew wild in the cracks of all my attempts to be like everyone else, I don’t know if I would even have been able to do art. To see that art was a possibility. It gave me the option to be something other than what I was told I had to be.”
― Helena Greer, Season of Love

“This was a fight they'd had a hundred times, but now they smiled at each other about it, all the resentment gone. Miriam realized suddenly how many of their fights had really been about them trying to say that they fit wrong.”
― Helena Greer, Season of Love

“It was so freeing to have someone else be righteously indignant on her behalf. She'd never given herself the space to feel that anger. Somehow, Noelle doing it let her move out of the flashback into a more neutral space.”
― Helena Greer, Season of Love

“Not that it’s your business, but I do like sex. With Hannah,” he confirmed. “There are a whole lot of ways to be demisexual. It’s a wide spectrum. Mine is, apparently, sex is great if I’m in love and holds absolutely no interest for me if I’m not.”
― Helena Greer, For Never & Always

“She didn’t need to give up rational, logical thinking and listen to her intuition. She needed to make lists, then make plans from her lists, then systematically make those plans become reality through sheer organization and willpower.”
― Helena Greer, For Never & Always