Fiona Zedde > Quotes

“The first time someone else touched me with the intent to pleasure, I fell in love. Not with that person, but with the act itself. Such intimacy and accord. Even with the awkwardness of first time lovers there was a grace and purity, carnal and beautiful that I knew from that moment on I could never live without.”
― Fiona Zedde, Bliss

“Just because I’ve been gone from this country for most of my life doesn’t mean I understand it any less. When I was fifteen I left Jamaica. I knew that I was a lesbian then and, because of what I looked like, I was an out lesbian. It was hard for me. It was hard for the thirteen years I was in England, for various reasons, and it’s going to be difficult here as well. I don’t anticipate anything being easy. But I’d rather suffer the chance of someone accosting me for being a dyke than suffer the emotional violence I’d do to myself if I wasn’t honest about who I am.”
― Fiona Zedde, Bliss

“Across from her, Hunter devoured her meal even more completely than she had. Sinclair watched her sink sharp teeth into the chicken bone, heard it snap, then the soft grunt of satisfaction. She made soft sucking sounds then emptied her mouth of the tiny ground up remains on a corner of her dish. Hunter ate with rabbit-like intensity, biting and sucking and spitting in an even rhythm until all that was left on the plate was a small brown and beige pile of ground bones. She finally looked up and caught Sinclair staring.”
― Fiona Zedde, Bliss

“Suddenly I’m so wet I could probably slide all the way to the damn restaurant.”
― Fiona Zedde, The Magical Femme: A Lesbian Short Story

“My adult existence is not validated by the orgasms I share with another person.”
― Fiona Zedde, Femme Like Her

“If only not talking about pain was the same as erasing it.”
― Fiona Zedde, Femme Like Her

“You can’t deny someone’s truth when they tell you who they are or what they want. No matter what you believe.”
― Fiona Zedde, Femme Like Her

“Once you’ve seen behind the curtain of these stories, you realize there’s no prince coming to rescue you, the world is full of horrible people who wish you nothing but harm, and the only person who can save you is yourself.”
― Fiona Zedde, Femme Like Her

“Like somebody said to me once, attraction and compatibility aren’t about labels or the clothes you wear.”
― Fiona Zedde, Femme Like Her

“Being a judgmental, closed-minded bitch only ever leads to loneliness and regret.”
― Fiona Zedde, Femme Like Her

“Appreciating another woman is never something you have to apologize for,”
― Fiona Zedde, Stud Like Her

“Cowards don’t get to live full lives, Nailah. They run away from good things as well as bad and end up living with regret, and dying with it too.”
― Fiona Zedde, Femme Like Her