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“She's happy with who she is. Maybe it's not the heteronormative dream that she grew up wishing for, but... knowing who you are and loving yourself is so much better than that, I think.”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“Give your friendships the magic you would give a romance. Because they're just as important. Actually, for us, they're way more important.”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“The aromantic and asexual spectrums weren’t just straight lines. They
were radar charts with at least a dozen different axes.”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“Are they also …?’
‘They’re asexual too.’
‘Wow.’ Ellis grinned. ‘Well, that makes three of us.’
‘There are more,’ I said. ‘A lot more. Out there. In the world.’
‘Really?’
‘Yeah.’ Ellis stared out of the window, smiling. ‘That would be nice. If there were lots out there.”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“Perhaps it’s just easier to smile and pretend everything is fine, rather than admit my heart’s a little swollen from losing something that wasn’t even mine.”
― Courtney Peppernell, Pillow Thoughts

“People should fall in love more. Fall in love with the way your coffee swirls as soon as you pour the milk in. Fall in love with the look your dog gives you when you wake up. Fall in love with the rare moment when your cat doesn’t ignore you. Fall in love with the person who tells you to have a good day. Fall in love with the waiter who gives you extra chili fries. Fall in love with sweaters in winter and cold lemonade in summer. Fall in love with the moment your head hits the pillow. Fall in love with talking to someone until 4 a.m. Fall in love with the days you can hit the snooze button over and over again. Fall in love when a lover stares at you for five hours. Fall in love with the stars when they look at you. Fall in love with the sound of someone breathing. Fall in love with the bus if it’s on time or the train if it comes early. Fall in love with everything possible.”
― Courtney Peppernell, Pillow Thoughts

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Some of us wear our hearts. Some of us carry them.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories

“I wanted nothing more than to feel something, but I didn't know how to deal with what came after the feeling.”
― Julie Murphy, Side Effects May Vary

“Gay is the opium of the people.”
― Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

“I found myself taking more risks, because failure had a second life — it could spin a yarn. There was an agency in the retelling, in the self-deprecation and of course self-mythologizing. Memoir is how you groom yourself. Memoir is drag.”
― Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

“Your thorns are the best part of you.”
― Marianne Moore

“Nirrim, I can't be good to you."
"Then be bad.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie

“I wanted to say, I would rather have you for a little time than no time at all.
I will remember you perfectly. My memory will touch your skin, your lips. The memory will hurt, but it will be mine.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie

“I realized that wanting is a kind of power even if you don’t get what you want. Wanting illuminates everything you need, and how the world has failed you.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie

“Tell me what you want,” she said, “and I will make it happen.”
I want my liar, I thought.
I want her mouth.
I want her perfume to rub off on my skin like bruised grass.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie

“Her words came in a sudden rush. “You’re hard to look away from. I can’t look away from you. I don’t know how anyone could.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie

“I like to wear a man’s clothes and I like that it startles people, and then even if I hate dresses I enjoy wearing one to show you that when you thought I was one thing and changed your mind you must now change it again. I like disappearing and showing up when I am least expected. I like pretending. Sometimes I forget myself, and fall for my own game.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie

“You talk a lot.”
“I lie a lot, too. Fair warning.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie

“I am a thief only of hearts.”
“We agreed. We agreed about the bragging.”
“That wasn’t bragging. That was true.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie

“It occurred to me that it was a special person, a gentle one, who allowed another to keep her secrets.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie

“I want you to stay in the city for a month."

"Why?"

Because I would miss you. Because I am not ready to let you go.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie

“I was lonely for her even though she was right in front of me.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie

“What do you do when you can’t make something right?
When you know you won’t be forgiven?
You lie.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie

“I did not, in the end, want to share the truth, because the words of love inside me felt like the only part of her that could ever remain mine.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie

“What did you think?"

I blurted, "That when you wanted something, you wouldn't rest until you got it."

"Only when we are talking about women, dear Nirrim.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie

“No,” I said. “Thank you for everything. For this.”
“I am a gift from the gods, but I confess that I didn’t create the sea.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie

“If you aren't sure, then you definitely aren't in love.”
― Katharine McGee, The Thousandth Floor

“Sometimes love and chaos are the same thing.”
― Katharine McGee, The Thousandth Floor

“It was a soft kiss that only lasted for about two seconds, but I felt something in my stomach rev, like an old car trying to start. I wanted to see what it would feel like for the engine to turn over.”
― Celia Laskey, Under the Rainbow