Morgan > Morgan's Quotes

“We’re all taught from a young age that there are only two choices: pink or blue, Bratz or Power Rangers, cheerleading or football. We see gender in two dimensions because that’s what society has taught us from birth. But, are you ready for a shocking revelation?
SOCIETY NEEDS TO CHANGE.”
― Jeff Garvin, Symptoms of Being Human

“The world isn't binary. Everything isn't black or white, yes or no. Sometimes it's not a switch, it's a dial. And it's not even a dial you can get your hands on; it turns without your permission or approval" -Riley”
― Jeff Garvin, Symptoms of Being Human

“Love isn’t a choice. You fall for the person, not their chromosomes.”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above: A Powerful LGBTQIA+ YA Story of Intersex Teen Identity and Self-Acceptance

“The biggest difference between boy and girls is how people treat them”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above: A Powerful LGBTQIA+ YA Story of Intersex Teen Identity and Self-Acceptance

“And I wondered for the first time whether 'feeling feminine' just meant feeling good in your own skin.”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above: A Powerful LGBTQIA+ YA Story of Intersex Teen Identity and Self-Acceptance

“I mean, why would a God create all of us and put us here if we were supposed to go around feeling bad about ourselves and pretending to be somebody we're not? How is hiding who you are telling the truth?”
― Aaron Hartzler, Rapture Practice: A True Story About Growing Up Gay in an Evangelical Family

“People are always going to think something about you that isn't real. It doesn't matter what they think.”
― Malinda Lo, Adaptation

“Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“Why do girls always feel like they have to apologize for giving an opinion or taking up space in the world? Have you ever noticed that?" Nicole asked. "You go on websites and some girl leaves a post and if it's longer than three sentences or she's expressing her thoughts about some topic, she usually ends with, 'Sorry for the rant' or 'That may be dumb, but that's what I think.”
― Libba Bray, Beauty Queens

“If you slip far enough out of your life, time picks up. Passes in waves instead of notches. One month rolling by, then another.”
― Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep

“I would rather have 1 amazing best friend than 100 decent regular friends. It's not about quantity, it's about quality.”
― Connor Franta, A Work in Progress

“Question: Why does life have to feel like such a struggle at times? Answer: Because without the struggle, the triumphs wouldn’t taste as sweet.”
― Connor Franta, A Work in Progress

“Girls can be athletic. Guys can have feelings. Girls can be smart. Guys can be creative. And vice versa. Gender is specific only to your reproductive organs (and sometimes not even to those), not your interest, likes, dislikes, goals, and ambitions.”
― Connor Franta, A Work in Progress

“People are beautiful. All people, of all shapes and sizes. The fact that we are living, breathing organisms that happen to have opposable thumbs, allowing us to pick up our phones and be on it for the entire damn day, is nothing short of brilliant. What makes us even more magnificent as a species is that we are lucky enough to be uniquely different - and it's THAT individuality we must each harness and celebrate.”
― Connor Franta, A Work in Progress

“We cannot do everything; we cannot be everywhere. If you want to have a good time, make it a good time!”
― Connor Franta, A Work in Progress

“Just when you think you know who you are, life has this way of throwing a curveball and landing you back in the town of confusion; population: a vast majority of the human race.”
― Connor Franta, A Work in Progress

“Sure relationships include arguments, but pain is not a side-effect of love.”
― Tyler Oakley, Binge

“No person, no matter how important society deems their relationship to you, has the right to denounce you for who you are.”
― Tyler Oakley, Binge

“In every community, some people will fit every stereotype, and some people will fit no stereotypes, and both are valid representations for that community.”
― Tyler Oakley, Binge

“Some people have lives; some people have music.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“I fall a little bit in love with everyone.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“He tells me to pick the music. I’m not sure if he knows that handing me his iPod is like handing me the window to his soul.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“From the ground, we stand;
From our ships, we live;
By the stars, we hope.

—Exodan proverb”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet