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  • #1
    Rick Riordan
    “Will put his hand on Nico's shoulder. "Nico, we need to have another talk about your people skills."
    "Hey, I'm just stating the obvious. If this is Apollo, and he dies, we're all in trouble."
    Will turned to me. "I apologize for my boyfriend."
    Nico rolled his eyes. "Could you not―"
    "Would you prefer special guy?" Will asked. "Or significant other?"
    "Significant annoyance, in your case," Nico grumbled”
    Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

  • #2
    Madeline Miller
    “That is — your friend?"
    "Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #3
    Casey McQuiston
    “Straight people, he thinks, probably don't spend this much time convincing themselves that they're straight.”
    Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
    tags: bi, gay, lgbt

  • #4
    Leah Raeder
    “Girls love each other like animals. There is something ferocious and unself-conscious about it. We don't guard ourselves like we do with boys. No one trains us to shield our hearts from each other. With girls, it's total vulnerability from the beginning. Our skin is bare and soft. We love with claws and teeth and the blood is just proof of how much. It's feral.

    And it's relentless.”
    Leah Raeder, Black Iris

  • #5
    Nancy Garden
    “There’s a Greek legend—no, it’s in something Plato wrote—about how true lovers are really two halves of the same person. It says that people wander around searching for their other half, and when they find him or her, they are finally whole and perfect. The thing that gets me is that the story says that originally all people were really pairs of people, joined back to back, and that some of the pairs were man and man, some woman and woman, and others man and woman. What happened was that all of these double people went to war with the gods, and the gods, to punish them, split them all in two. That’s why some lovers are heterosexual and some are homosexual, female and female, or male and male.”
    Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind

  • #6
    Adam Silvera
    “Two dudes met. They fell in love. They lived. That's our story.”
    Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

  • #7
    David Levithan
    “I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten.

    It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.”
    David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy

  • #8
    Tyler Oakley
    “This is why homophobia is a terrible evil: it disguises itself as concern while it is inherently hate.”
    Tyler Oakley, Binge

  • #9
    David Sedaris
    “It's astonishing the amount of time that certain straight people devote to gay sex - trying to determine what goes where and how often. They can't imagine any system outside their own, and seem obsessed with the idea of roles, both in bed and out of it. Who calls whom a bitch? Who cries harder when the cat dies? Which one spends the most time in the bathroom? I guess they think that it's that cut-and-dried, though of course it's not. Hugh might do the cooking, and actually wear an apron while he's at it, but he also chops the firewood, repairs the hot-water heater, and could tear off my arm with no more effort than it takes to uproot a dandelion.”
    David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

  • #10
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “There are worst things in life than kissing boys.”
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

  • #11
    Patricia Highsmith
    “Was it love or wasn't it that she felt for Carol? And how absurd it was that she didn't even know. She had heard about girls falling in love, and she knew what kind of people they were and what they looked like. Neither she nor Carol looked like that. Yet the way she felt about Carol passed all the tests for love and fitted all the descriptions.”
    Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

  • #12
    “wtf even is my sexuality”
    Dan Howell

  • #13
    Nina LaCour
    “I hate that word. Straight. At the very least, those of us who are nonstraight should get called curvy. Or scenic. Actually, I like that: 'Do you think she's straight?' 'Oh no. She's scenic”
    Nina LaCour, You Know Me Well

  • #14
    Aiden Thomas
    “To Julian, he asked, "Is Yadriel your friend?"
    The word burned. "¡Mi querido!" he snapped viciously.”
    Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys
    tags: lgbt, love

  • #15
    Casey McQuiston
    “I want you—"
    "Then fucking have me."
    "—but I don't want this."
    Alex wants to grab Henry and shake him, wants to scream in his face, wants to smash every priceless antique in the room.
    "What does that even mean?"
    "I don't want it!" Henry practically shouts. His eyes are flashing, wet and angry and afraid. "Don't you bloody see? I'm not like you. I can't afford to be reckless. I don't have a family who will support me. I don't go about shoving who I am in everyone's faces and dreaming about a career in fucking politics, so I can be more scrutinized and picked apart by the entire godforsaken world. I can love you and want you and still not want that life. I'm allowed, all right, and it doesn't make me a liar; it makes me a man with some infinitesimal shred of self-preservation, unlike you, and you don't get to come here and call me a coward for it.”
    Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

  • #16
    David Levithan
    “People like to say being gay isn't like skin color, isn't anything physical. They tell us we always have the option of hiding.
    But if that's true, why do they always find us?”
    David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #18
    Madeline Miller
    “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

  • #19
    J.K. Rowling
    “You haven't got a letter on yours," George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #20
    Madeline Miller
    “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #21
    J.K. Rowling
    “How do you feel, Georgie?" whispered Mrs. Weasley.
    George's fingers groped for the side of his head.
    "Saintlike," he murmured.
    "What's wrong with him?" croaked Fred, looking terrified. "Is his mind affected?"
    "Saintlike," repeated George, opening his eyes and looking up at his brother. "You see...I'm HOLEY, Fred, geddit?”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #22
    Madeline Miller
    “In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #23
    Madeline Miller
    “Name one hero who was happy."
    I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back.
    "You can't." He was sitting up now, leaning forward.
    "I can't."
    "I know. They never let you be famous AND happy." He lifted an eyebrow. "I'll tell you a secret."
    "Tell me." I loved it when he was like this.
    "I'm going to be the first." He took my palm and held it to his. "Swear it."
    "Why me?"
    "Because you're the reason. Swear it."
    "I swear it," I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes.
    "I swear it," he echoed.
    We sat like that a moment, hands touching. He grinned.
    "I feel like I could eat the world raw.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #24
    J.K. Rowling
    “He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with my news...check if I'm happy...”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #25
    Madeline Miller
    “I am made of memories.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #26
    Madeline Miller
    “We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #27
    J.K. Rowling
    “I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #28
    J.K. Rowling
    “An Unbreakable Vow?" said Ron, looking stunned. "Nah, he can’t have.... Are you sure?"
    "Yes I’m sure," said Harry. "Why, what does it mean?"
    "Well, you can’t break an Unbreakable Vow..."
    "I’d worked that much out for myself, funnily enough.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

  • #29
    Rick Riordan
    “Um...is that thing tame?" Frank said.
    The horse whinnied angrily.
    "I don't think so," Percy guessed. "He just said, 'I will trample you to death, silly Chinese Canadian baby man'.
    Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune

  • #30
    André Aciman
    “We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
    Andre Aciman, Call Me by Your Name



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