Diverse Characters Quotes

“I don’t check any particular box. I’ve never caught feelings for anyone because they were a male or a female. I feel for people because of who they are. Not what they are.”
― Tammy Ferebee, Outsiders

“Power unfettered by wisdom and conscious control is dangerous.”
― Aaron-Michael Hall, Kurintor Nyusi

“When death becomes an escape, when it becomes attractive, the purpose of life is fulfilled. To teach one it's futility, it's worthlessness, that is the purpose of life. Incongruously, its value lies in having imparted that lesson."
"In the nights though, I couldn't help but weave the golden cloth of my dreams. Each stitch from heart to thought, and thought to heart, was painful to bear, even if it was joyous at times. Because each thread was fraught with the fears of being broken midway, lost and never found again.”
― Faiqa Mansab, This House of Clay and Water

“It was just a simple meeting of the eyes. There was nothing to it. She had done so with countless people. And she had stared at his eyes before, back at the cinema. But there was something different at that exact time, in that exact situation, with exactly the same person.
It was like being struck by lightning. Sudden, electric, paralyzing.
And she knew he felt it too. For some inexplicable reason, they both found themselves unable to look away, powerless to deny the pull. Hypnotized by each other’s brown irises, without knowing nor caring who wielded the magic wand of trance which put them into some kind of conscious stupor. While the world and everything in it faded in the background and the noises outside were hushed, Alex was achingly aware of herself. Of how drawn she was to the deep, swirling pools of dark honey staring into her soul, magnetic and mystic at the same time. Of how every nerve and every cell of her body were ablaze, tongues of flame flittering over them, singeing her with a torturous warmth. Of the blaring sound of her pulse pounding heavily beneath the onslaught of his sensual thumb. It was a scintillating torment she didn’t want to end.”
― Mayumi Cruz, It's Not Just Semantics

“Alyelu didn’t want to injure him, but he wouldn’t release him, either. That feeling was one he couldn’t admit, but the truth sat there before him. Mocking him.”
― Aaron-Michael Hall, Kurintor Nyusi

“you are dark and always been beautiful: like the night, like a star after it bursts, like obsidian & onyx & jet precious.
But I know I am beautiful like all & none of those things: far in the sky and deep in the earth
I am beautiful like a dark skinned girl that is right here.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“There is no such thing as a disability, and we say diffability, because we know you are all different, and possess different abilities.”
― Troian Anderson, The Light of Winter

“...forever meant different things to people at different times. They could imagine what infinity looked and felt like as much as they wanted, but could never truly grasp its meaning nor bear its full weight.”
― Roy L. Pickering Jr., Matters of Convenience

“His fierce appreciation of female beauty, the unrelenting desire he felt for their company, the pleasure he both derived and sought to give, had led him in and out of quite a few bedroom doors.”
― Roy L. Pickering Jr., Matters of Convenience

“Most people surrendered fairy tale hopes in exchange for cookie cutter lives”
― Roy L. Pickering Jr., Matters of Convenience

“It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise moment she was willing to accommodate him, arriving not a minute too early or too late.”
― Roy L. Pickering Jr., Matters of Convenience

“On occasion he would think back to the fiercest passion it had been his pleasure to experience and reflect on what might have been. He would look upon the woman who occupied the opposite half of his bed and feel his life had not quite lived up to the promise of another day. These moments would be mercifully brief, or so he hoped.”
― Roy L. Pickering Jr., Matters of Convenience

“Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn’t in vain, he was able to justify his presence.”
― Roy L. Pickering Jr., Matters of Convenience

“I had never said those words because there were no words left. My beloved and I were both exiles from language. Our love couldn't be expressed in words. Our love had been woven into the melodies rendered by his flute, and it was subsumed in the atoms of the air we breathed. It had been consecrated in this shrine. It had never been named. It was an unnamed thing that had remained unspoken, unuttered, unsaid. I did not need to name it when he could already hear it.”
― Faiqa Mansab, This House of Clay and Water

“It is not often that I have two options to choose from. It is nice to be compelled towards something, otherwise one drifts through life unimpeded.”
― Faiqa Mansab, This House of Clay and Water

“Her lips, which taste still lingered on his mouth. By his normal standards, it was again a fleeting, chaste kiss. But it had struck him with the power of a thousand lightnings.
He’d tasted many a woman’s lips. And for longer periods of time. But they all paled in comparison with her lips. It was like he’d been feasting on sand for the longest time. Suddenly now, he had a taste of a sprinkling of sugar and realized it was what he had been missing, starving, craving for so long.
Now, all he could think of was sand and sugar.”
― Mayumi Cruz, It's Not Just Semantics

“Knowledge comes from what you learn…wisdom comes from what you experience, understand, and accept.”
― Aaron-Michael Hall, Kurintor Nyusi

“The deepest connection you have with someone & their culture, is through learning their language.”
― Marisa J Taylor, Happy within / Feliz por dentro: Children's Book Bilingual English Spanish

“Keep in mind, her medical training is from watching soap operas.”
― Missy Michaels, Loyal

“If I took the time to shower in your fancy stuff I wanna smell like a damn strawberry.”
― Missy Michaels, Loyal

“He accused me of hiding the letter. He accused me of being too empathetic. And he accused me of not acknowledging the potential danger. But he was wrong, wrong and wrong”
― Missy Michaels, Loyal

“The spiteful, little stars.”
― Maria Dembouski, Dark Whisperings

“I will pull the house of cards down to the depths of hell when I am ready.”
― Kailee Reese Samuels, Salt Kissed Love

“I wear the memories in stitches, in pain that takes its time. The body remembers everything.”
― Delali Adjoa, The Free Verse Society

“My fingers memorize the way her limbs flow. How soft and careful she is. How sure she is in her quiet.”
― Delali Adjoa, The Free Verse Society

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― Delali Adjoa, The Free Verse Society

“Are you okay?
Jae. Her voice hovers in the silence as I drop the broken birds into the trash can. A glass splinter digs into my hand and leaves a small, swelling red mark when I pull it out.
Are you okay?
I look up at the ticking clock on the kitchen wall. I can’t be late for my two-hour shift at the diner.
Are you okay?
I rip off my jersey and jump into the shower and try not to think about her black eyes shining like glass. I try not to think about the dimples that appear like magic when she talks. I wonder if I could ever make her smile and how deep her dimples would get. I wonder what would happen if I touched her, or if I ever should.
Maybe she’d break like everything else.”
― Delali Adjoa, The Free Verse Society

“I decide that Derek Patel, however beautiful he might be under all that dust, is a hope a heart should not have, a flashing yellow light, a reflective caution sign in the dark. Detour. Dead end.”
― Delali Adjoa, The Free Verse Society

“In every story, I found a piece of my own heart.”
― Rendi Ansyah, Beyond the Bouquet: A Symphony of Love in Fifty Movements

“Every couple's story left me with a smile on my face.”
― Rendi Ansyah, Beyond the Bouquet: A Symphony of Love in Fifty Movements