Demisexual Quotes

“I've read fairy tales, of course, and listened to plaintive love songs, but I never understood why anyone would wake up after a hundred years and marry the prince who broke into their bedroom for a kiss. Or dance with a stranger once and decide to spend the rest of their lives together. I always felt a baffled kind of melancholy when others raptured over love at first sight, like maybe something was wrong with me, maybe I didn't know how to love someone at all.
I didn't know it wasn't just me.”
― Margaret Owen, Little Thieves

“There won't be any sex for the first three hundred thousand words... that's how you know this is an asexual-to-demisexual story.”
― Christopher X. Sullivan, The Book of Beginnings: It's Just Us Here

“Demisexual?” Her face, that beautiful face, remains unchanged. Doesn’t shift to
incredulity or boredom. Just understanding. Beautiful understanding and acceptance. “I
know. I won’t press you into anything you don’t want. I love you, Lili. All of you and all
of how you think and live and breathe. Demisexual just means loving differently, and
there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s your everything I love. Not bits and pieces.”

“My everything?”

She nuzzles her forehead beneath my chin. “Yes, your everything. Silly siren.”
― Sophie Whit, Catch Lili Too

“It’s weird, spending your life feeling different from everyone around you and not understanding why or how. You helped when you gave me those terms, but I still didn’t know who I was. Don’t know if I do now. Am I demisexual? I guess. But maybe I’m not, and I don’t know that it really matters. The only thing that does, for me at least, is how I feel.”
― Riley Hart, Griff's Place

“Faron's heart stopped entirely as she stared at him. Like friends, romance was a sacrifice she'd made to be the Childe Empyrean. It hadn't mattered much to her until now, because Faron had figured out long ago that she didn't feel attraction the way other people did. She had never looked at a random person and wanted them. She had never seen the beauty of others as anything other than an objective observation. She had never pictured herself kissing anyone the way she'd seen her sister kiss Cherry McKay.
But she pictured it now.”
― Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn

“It’s all right, Byron. You’re more poet than you are pirate.” I walk up to him then.

He scrambles to fix his spectacles. “But didn’t you always dream of adventure?”

He stammers a bit. “I mean. I studied literature.”
― Sophie Whit, Catch Lili Too

“Lots of things exist in Gamin that shouldn't... It doesn't stop them from existing.”
― Sophie Whit, Catch Lili Too

“I forgot what led to it, but here it is:

'Romance, love, and sex are actually all separate things, but our conflation of them leads to various troubles.'

It surprised me to hear that. I'd never thought about them separately before. Because it never occured me to do so.”
― Iori Miyazawa, Otherside Picnic Volume 8: Accomplices No More