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    “What do you want?
    I want to stop living in fear. I want to stop coming up with excuses about why I'm not interested in dating. I want my family to know me. I want to get to learn more about Lisa. I want to stop feeling like everything I am is inadequate or makes me unworthy of love because of something I can't help.”
    ― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel
    tags: lesbian, lgbt, sapphic, wlw
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    “How do people do this? How do people work up the courage to be themselves even if it means facing rejection from people who love them? Why don’t people get medals for this?”
    ― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel
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    “I’m not heterophobic or anything. I just wish I didn’t have to watch them express their lust for each other all the time.”
    ― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel
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  • #4
    “It’s the ambiguity that throws people; they want to know which box to put you in.”
    ― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel
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    “I was doing fine until you were so ridiculously sweet at just the right times.”
    ― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel
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  • #6
    “You’re not a phase, Leila. If anything, you’re the only thing in my life that makes sense these days.” I”
    ― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel
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  • #7
    “And then I knew for sure what I had been trying to avoid for so long. Everything rushed to the surface. I cried as I remembered throwing the dress I had received for my third birthday on the floor. I cried as I remembered wanting to be best friends with a girl in fifth grade because she was so pretty. I cried as I remembered always rescuing the girl, played by a stuffed animal, while pretending to be Indiana Jones. I”
    ― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel
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  • #8
    “I wish there was a manual on how to come out and what a young gay person is supposed to do. Like,”
    ― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel
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  • #9
    “I wish I had gaydar. I wish it were something you could pick up in a store.”
    ― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel
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  • #10
    “I love you. You’re my whole reason to exist. That’s why this is hard.”
    ― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel
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  • #11
    “It’s like finding a magical unicorn in a high school full of cattle.”
    ― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel
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  • #12
    “Because hate doesn't just touch the intended target, it spreads to every person who witnesses it.”
    ― Sara Farizan, Here to Stay
    tags: anger, angry, hate, hatred, here-to-stay, people, witness
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  • #13
    “If someone pushes you, you push right back.”
    ― Sara Farizan, Here to Stay
    tags: fight-back, here-to-stay, push-back, rebel, stand-up, strong
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  • #14
    “It felt kind of good to scream. I wished it were socially acceptable to scream more often. Not in class or anything, but maybe there could be some roped-off area or campus designated for screaming your cares away.”
    ― Sara Farizan, Here to Stay
    tags: anger, emotion, here-to-stay, kids, people, scream, teens
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  • #15
    Cassandra Clare
    “You're not gay, are you?"
    Simon's greenish color deepened. "If I were, I would dress better.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: embarrasment, fashion, gay, simon-lewis
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  • #16
    “I wanted to tell her secrets I hadn't even told myself yet.”
    ― Molly Beth Griffin, Silhouette of a Sparrow
    tags: love, secrets
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  • #17
    “Water pressed against my skin and my skin pressed back against the water and the boundary was, in that moment, so wonderfully defined. I was myself because I wasn't sky or water or sand.”
    ― Molly Beth Griffin, Silhouette of a Sparrow
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  • #18
    “I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.”
    ― Robert Michaels MD - 2007 - Graduation Speaker
    tags: advice, kindness, leadership, love, management, people, respect, success
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  • #19
    Becky Albertalli
    “Why is straight the default? Everyone should have to declare one way or another, and it shouldn't be this big awkward thing whether you're straight, gay, bi, or whatever. I'm just saying.”
    ― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
    tags: glbt, simon-spier
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  • #20
    Pete Wentz
    “We’re sick of hearing people say, “That band is so gay,” or “Those guys are fags.” Gay is not a synonym for shitty. If you wanna say something’s shitty, say it’s shitty. Stop being such homophobic assholes.”
    ― Pete Wentz
    tags: homophobia, lgbt, vocabulary
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    Cassandra Clare
    “I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls
    tags: alec-lightwood, magnus-bane, simon-lewis
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  • #22
    “Gay people don’t actually try to convert people. That’s Jehovah’s Witnesses you’re thinking of.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
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  • #23
    Colleen Hoover
    “Holder: "I thought Mormon's weren't allowed to have caffeine?"
    Breckin: "I decided to break that rule the morning I woke up gay.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
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  • #24
    Nikita Gill
    “We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls, and nitrogen in our brains. 93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames, we are all just stars that have people names.”
    ― Nikita Gill
    tags: poetry, stars
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  • #25
    Nikita Gill
    “Girls like her were born in a storm. They have lightning in their souls. Thunder in their hearts. And chaos in their bones.”
    ― Nikita Gill
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  • #26
    Nikita Gill
    “She wears strength and darkness equally well,
    The girl has always been half goddess, half hell”
    ― Nikita Gill, Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul
    tags: darkness, strength, strong-woman
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  • #27
    Nikita Gill
    “Only the brave and the broken are kind in this world.”
    ― Nikita Gill
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  • #28
    Nikita Gill
    “Let it hurt. Let it bleed. Let it heal. And let it go.”
    ― Nikita Gill, Your Soul is a River
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  • #29
    Nikita Gill
    “I hope you find someone who knows how to love you when you are sad.”
    ― Nikita Gill
    tags: love, love-quotes-and-sayings, sad, sad-quotes
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  • #30
    Nikita Gill
    “Those freckles make you seem like a galaxy of stars, just waiting to be explored and loved.”
    ― Nikita Gill
    tags: freckles, galaxy, love, love-quotes, romance, stars
    154 likes



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