Charlotte > Charlotte's Quotes

“Oh...I didn't realise you'd be bringing..." She darted her gaze tot he dog. "...anyone. The scene's quite delicate."

"Don't worry," Kenny said dryly. "He's trained."

Aaron smiled sweetly.

Parry blinked. "I meant the dog."

"So did I." Kenny clapped his hands together for warmth.

"Aaron's the feral one.”
― C.F. White, Baby It's Cold Outside

“Kenny understood that. He had to. Because loving Aaron meant more than patience. It meant precision. A quiet discipline. He had to read beneath the surface, to listen with more than ears. To know when to offer steadiness and when to let Aaron reach. Lead without ever taking. To never blur the lines of consent even when Aaron trembled with the ache of wanting to be led.”
― C.F. White

“The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I am a rare species, not a stereotype.”
― Ivan Coyote

“I wanted to tell them that I'd never had a friend, not ever, not a real one. Until Dante. I wanted to tell them that I never knew that people like Dante existed in the world, people who looked at the stars, and knew the mysteries of water, and knew enough to know that birds belonged to the heavens and weren't meant to be shot down from their graceful flights by mean and stupid boys. I wanted to tell them that he had changed my life and that I would never be the same, not ever. And that somehow it felt like it was Dante who had saved my life and not the other way around. I wanted to tell them that he was the first human being aside from my mother who had ever made me want to talk about the things that scared me. I wanted to tell them so many things and yet I didn't have the words. So I just stupidly repeated myself. "Dante's my friend.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“You don't have to have it all figured out to let me love you. I'm gonna do that anyway." Blake in The Perfect Shine”
― J. K. Hogan

“If you think you need to earn enough points on someone’s rubric for them to accept you, then either you’re wrong to assume they won’t love you for who you are, or they never loved you in the first place.”
― Zack Smedley, Deposing Nathan

“I’ve spent every minute of these past months trying to figure out why I feel the things I feel, and if there’s a way to put that into words, I won’t find it. I am who I am. I’ve never acted on less than that, and I never want to.”
― Zack Smedley, Deposing Nathan

“I am who I am.”
― Zack Smedley, Deposing Nathan

“...I don't know where I'm going, but I know I'll be there soon.”
― Zack Smedley, Deposing Nathan

“flex his testicles with me,”
― Chase Taylor Hackett, Where Do I Start?

“Okay, so I'm an optimist. My mother says I'm cock-eyed---but I don't think she means it like it sounds.”
― Chase Taylor Hackett, Where Do I Start?

“What the fuck, what the fucking, bloody devil-shit, what in the name of Satan's swollen cock was that?”
― K.J. Charles, The Magpie Lord

“We’re allowed to have complicated feelings,” Arthur said softly. “You can be grateful for what you now have and still mourn a loss.”
― Allie Therin, Spellbound

“Labels are for cans, not people.”
― Anthony Rapp

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“If Ben has trouble, Blue will inevitably be dragged into his orbit. He's like a rather wonky comet constantly veering off his own path and into others' paths.”
― Lily Morton, The Sceptic

“Kenny understood that. He had to. Because loving Aaron meant more than patience. It meant precision. A quiet discipline. He had to read beneath the surface, to listen with more than ears. To know when to offer steadiness and when to let Aaron reach. Lead without ever taking. To never blur the lines of consent, even when Aaron trembled with the ache of wanting to be led. So Aaron had to choose this. Freely. Consciously. Not because he needed Kenny to hold him together, but because he trusted him enough to let go.”
― C.F. White, Baby It's Cold Outside

“A boy made in the fire who'd refused to become smoke.”
― C.F. White, Baby It's Cold Outside

“I love you, Aaron. The way you are. Every ragged, difficult, brilliant part of you. And everything in between. I've never-never-felt like this about anyone. And it hurts."

Aaron's breath caught.

But Kenny didn't let him look away.

"It hurts because one day you might not need me. You'll be strong enough to stand in the world without flinching. You're young and beautiful. And I'm...older and weathered. And if you do choose to walk on your own, I’ll be proud. But devastated. Because this… right here…. This is the best I’ve ever felt in my life.”
― C.F. White, Baby It's Cold Outside

“Unless someone went spelunking through your porn history or found those little naked-bedside photos you think I don't know you take of me tangled in the sheets."

"You look...genuinely breathtaking like that."

"I'm aware. Also don't think I don't pose that way on purpose. Consider it performance art for your eyes only.”
― C.F. White, Baby It's Cold Outside

“Aaron wasn't afraid Kenny would stop loving him.

He was afraid Kenny would solve him.

And stop looking.”
― C.F. White, Baby It's Cold Outside