Outing Quotes

“I can’t help blushing and looking down at my feet. “It was nothing.”
“It was literally everything to me.”
I look up, putting on my best version of Eight’s teasing smile. “In that case, I think I deserve more than a gross hot dog.”
Eight clasps his hands across his chest like I’ve wounded him. “You’re right! I’m a fool to think my life could be traded for a hot dog.” He grabs my hand and gets down on one knee, pressing his forehead to the back of my hand. “My savior, what can I ever do to repay you?”
― Pittacus Lore, The Fall of Five

“You don’t get to say it’s not a big thing. This is a big fucking thing, okay? This was supposed to be—this is mine. I’m supposed to decide when and where and who knows and how I want to say it.” Suddenly, my throat gets thick. “So, yeah, you took that from me.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“Yeah, I'm a drug addict. And a prostitute. The whole world knows. Not because I robbed my own family. Not because I ended up behind bars. Not because I've been hassled by the cops when soliciting customers from a local street corner. Not because I'm shooting up in the public bathrooms at your city park. Everyone knows because I told them all. I never tried to hide any of it. I never felt the need to.”
― Ashly Lorenzana, Speed Needles

“home is the structure/ you build when nowhere else will have you”
― Ann Tweedy, The Body's Alphabet

“Wie kann man bitte schön zehn Jahre lang verdrängen, schwul zu sein? Wir leben doch nicht mehr im Mittelalter, wo man für ein Outing die Eier abgesäbelt und in den Mund gestopft bekommen hat und weitere Nettigkeiten?”
― Isabel Shtar, Froschprinz - Band 2

“Ich bin aus tiefster Seele stockschwul.”
― Isabel Shtar, Froschprinz - Band 2

“Give up sitting dutifully at your desk. Leave
your house or apartment. Go out into the world.

It's all right to carry a notebook but a cheap
one is best, with pages the color of weak tea
and on the front a kitten or a space ship.”
― Ron Koertge, Fever: poems