Queer Love Quotes

“Harrow said, with some difficulty: "I cannot conceive of a universe without you in it."
"Yes you can, it's just less great and less hot," said Gideon."
"Fuck you, Nav—”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“We were never just friends, were we?’
I tried to remember. Had there ever been a time when my heart didn’t race around her? When my hands weren’t drawn to her hands? When fighting with her didn’t feel like the end of the world? When she wasn’t untangling my life? When we weren’t tangled together?
‘No,’ I said. ‘I guess we were never just.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“I used to be made of something other than nerve endings. But suddenly, that's all I am.”
― Sara Raasch, The Nightmare Before Kissmas

“Being forced to learn the language of your oppressors is an oppression of the mind. They rewrite your history when you're too young to know what you're giving away, and before you know it, it's too late to reclaim what you've lost,' she had said. 'Patois is your island's tongue, Elara. It's your heritage. It is the true expression of your heart. Don't give it away.”
― Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn

“I will not stop living my queerness out loud.
I will not stop raining my good queer love down on the world until we all have a seat at the table.

Until expressions of love and identity are met with the wonder with which we should meet all evidence of goodness in a world as harsh and lonely as this one can be.

Until the glitter of generations of fragmented hearts just like mine are finally welcomed all the way home.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“I never felt as much a citizen as I did when we became outlaws.”
― Jeremy Atherton Lin, Deep House

“But it struck me that people may be deeply uncomfortable with two lovers’ attendant vulnerability. Love brings loss to mind.”
― Jeremy Atherton Lin, Deep House

“I understood clearly through those days that I was living a feeling. And when I remember now, I am still living that; it has been folded into me and continues to resonate. On some level, we knew then that we were creating this feeling to be taken along from then on.”
― Jeremy Atherton Lin, Deep House

“Love brings loss to mind.”
― Jeremy Atherton Lin, Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told

“I understood clearly through those days that I was living a feeling. And when I remember now, I am still living that; it has been folded into me and continues to resonate. On some level,
we knew then that we were creating this feeling to be taken along from then on.”
― Jeremy Atherton Lin, Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told

“I don't necessarily find such pragmatism unromantic. It's rather lovely to think of someone willing to do the admin with you.”
― Jeremy Atherton Lin, Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told

“Tous les enfants méritaient de bénéficier de l’amour inconditionnel d’une famille, pour ce qu’ils étaient et pas pour répondre aux attentes de leurs parents.”
― Piper C.J., The Night and Its Moon

“Quelle meilleure manière de duper les hommes que de leur faire croire qu'ils menaient la danse ? Qu'ils avaient le pouvoir ? Leur tête était si creuse, leur cœur, si noir, qu'ils imaginaient qu'ils dominaient le monde.”
― Piper C.J., The Night and Its Moon

“L’amour naît de la synergie et de la confiance, et pas seulement de l’alchimie [...) Mais je n’ai jamais considéré ça comme une preuve de force ou de domination - uniquement d’insécurité.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“Il semblait incapable de concevoir qu’une femme puisse trouver l’apparence efféminée de Sun plus attirante que la sienne. Ma pensa avec une pointe d’ironie que, même sur ce point, il était aveugle. Si on lui avait laissé le choix, elle aurait évidemment préféré se fiancer à ce garçon-fleur, avec ses joues lisses comme celles d’une fille. Mais bien sûr, on ne lui avait pas demandé son avis.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun

“Une situation cruelle n'a pas de belle solution.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun

“Il est vrai qu’il existe des amateurs de pêches mordues, qui préfèrent naturellement les autres hommes. Je me demandais si c’était votre cas. Mais non... je crois que vous désirez les hommes parce que les femmes vous rappellent tout ce que vous détestez en vous-même. Le fait que, quoi que vous fassiez, quelles que soient vos prouesses, vous serez toujours considéré comme plus proche d’une femme que d’un homme. Faible. Médiocre.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun

“On peut pardonner à toute femme ses flirts d’adolescence irréfléchis. Quand on a dix-huit ans, on peut considérer un petit ami de vingt-quatre ans comme un signe de prestige, et non comme un sale type qui fréquente des adolescentes parce qu’elles sont plus malléables que les femmes de son âge.”
― Juno Dawson, The Royal Coven (Tome 1)

“La plupart des adultes de son entourage étaient encore en train de résoudre tant bien que mal leurs propres énigmes personnelles. Elle trouvait un peu excessif d’exiger de Theo que tout soit en ordre dans sa vie à quinze ans simplement parce qu’elle était trans. De l’avis de Niamh, l’utilisation de pronoms différents ne faisait pas la moindre p*tain de différence pour une seule âme dans ce monde à l’exception de Theo. Et pour elle, ça semblait signifier énormément.”
― Juno Dawson, The Royal Coven (Tome 1)

“To love a woman in a world that said I must not will never be anything but a revolution.

And when I kiss her, you must believe me, entire galaxies are mine.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“What kind of useless anger / can cause hatred towards love?”
― Kai McCarthy, Holding The Moon With Lavender Hands

“Claire pressed her forehead to Delilah’s, kissed her slowly, then adjusted her body so their legs were intertwined like pretzels, thighs pressing against each other's centers. Delilah gasped at the contact. The wet slide of the other woman's skin against hers was almost too much to bear. It was hot, and intimate, wild and safe all at once.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“We do not decide our hearts.”
― Caroline Sophia Hamel, The Essence of Longing

“Before the world fractured, humanity thought itself invincible. The signs
were always there, buried beneath the noise of progress and power. But
now, as Earth groans under the weight of human folly, three unlikely
leaders must rise—bound by love, driven by hope, and daring enough to
believe in the impossible.
a three body solution begins here.”
― Ken Breniman

“This is the story of how love—not just romantic love, but oxytocin-drenched, soul-binding, universe-shifting love—rewrote history.”
― Ken Breniman, a three body solution: A Daringly Subversive & Juicy Tale of Love, Evolution, & Humanity's Last Hope

“And their queerdo tale? It never followed a straight line—just a deliciously messy path from plot twist to plot twist.”
― Ken Breniman, a three body solution: A Daringly Subversive & Juicy Tale of Love, Evolution, & Humanity's Last Hope

“What if saving humanity isn’t about intellect alone, but about evolving into a species defined by its heart?”
― Ken Breniman, A three body solution: A Daringly Subversive & Juicy Tale of Love, Evolution, & Humanity's Last Hope

“Affection solved more than aggression; pleasure was a form of peace; connection was the highest form of intelligence.”
― Ken Breniman, A three body solution: A Daringly Subversive & Juicy Tale of Love, Evolution, & Humanity's Last Hope

“In the end, their story wasn’t about saving humanity—it was about reminding humanity what it means to truly live.”
― Ken Breniman, A three body solution: A Daringly Subversive & Juicy Tale of Love, Evolution, & Humanity's Last Hope

“The sadness was tempered with peace when I traced her face with my fingers.”
― J.K. Hernandez, The Color Jade: all of my love