Sapphic Quotes

“I fell in love with you the day that I met you, and then I fell in love with the person you remembered you are. I got to fall in love with you twice. That’s— that’s magic. You’re the first thing I’ve believed in since— since I don’t even remember, okay, you’re— you’re movies and destiny and every stupid, impossible thing, and it’s not because of the fucking train, it’s because of you. It’s because you fight and you care and you’re always kind but never easy, and you won’t let anything take that away from you. You’re my hero, Jane. I don’t care if you think you’re not one. You are.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“She’s inching forward.
Is there a heterosexual explanation for why she’s inching forward?”
― Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars

“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

“I don’t believe doing something in front of everybody makes it more meaningful, anyway. If anything, it makes it stop belonging to you.”
― Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

“Tell me what you want,” she said, “and I will make it happen.”
I want my liar, I thought.
I want her mouth.
I want her perfume to rub off on my skin like bruised grass.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie

“You were the only one it could be.”
― Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

“I have been married seven times, and never once has it felt half as right as this. I think that loving you has been the truest thing about me”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“She’s glad it’s Shara. Nobody else would have felt important enough.”
― Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

“Through her eyes, I was able to experience the story for the first time all over again.”
― S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood

“We weren't made to be alone. We were made to love. And when we love, we automatically know God without trying to, because God is love. If we love as he made us to love—if we love with our hearts instead of our criteria—then we simply are love.”
― Kelly Quindlen, Her Name in the Sky

“Hate like that—when it's disguised as love, or righteousness or pity—I'm not going to subject you to hate like that.”
― Kelly Quindlen, Her Name in the Sky

“Don't let happiness slip through your fingers because of old angers and mistakes.”
― Lyn Denison, Gold Fever

“I tell her I sing roses too, / My hands in the dirt where she lives forever”
― Sappho

“I let it all out: the joy and the pain. The waiting and the wanting. The future and the past. We kiss for so long I can't tell the difference between seconds and minutes anymore, but it's still not enough. I will never get enough of this. Kissing Iz feels like coming home.”
― Katia Rose, Stop and Stare

“I was dead, before. Now she has touched the life of me, the quick of me; she has put back my flesh and opened me up. Everything is changed.”
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

“We were barely even together. Like a cherry blossom, we'd bloomed, and dazzled, and died, all in the span of weeks. Although trees don't truly die once their leaves fall, do they? They simply lie dormant. As, I suppose, did we.”
― Sophie Gonzales, Nobody in Particular

“Throwing my arms around her, I kiss her. I kiss her hard and fast; I kiss her softly. I kiss her until our lips are sticky and my windows are fogged. She tastes like bubble gum and electricity, a sweet summer storm that rolls through me and rumbles on and on.”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical

“I’m dizzy for a moment. She makes me dizzy.”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical

“I rub my cheek against her hair and squeeze until I feel her exhale a breath. It’s not right that something this good, this perfect, can cause so much trouble.”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical

“my being a lesbian still wouldn’t be okay with her. She doesn’t even have the vocabulary to understand who I am. In her world, in her mind, there’s gay and there’s normal. And that means, if I’m not straight, I’m not normal.”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical

“Call me selfish; maybe I am selfish. But I’m selfish and afraid. I’ve done the research. Forty percent of homeless teens are queer. A quarter of queer kids get kicked out when they come out. It’s a long, long summer before college starts in the fall. I mean, at least I have a car. The title’s in my name. She can’t take that from me. Wow. That’s my silver lining. I have a car I can live in when my mother inevitably kicks me out. Because I know, in my heart, that Mom didn’t soften up about the gay issue and prom. She changed her mind because she didn’t want me to miss my prom. And, based on the increasingly desperate hammering on the bathroom door, I’m about to miss it anyway.”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical

“You don’t want to be a messiah,” Shelby adds. Jaw dropped, I hear myself correcting Shelby instead of processing what they’ve just said. “You mean pariah.” Cheerfully, Shelby links arms with Kaylee and shrugs. “Whatever. It’s prom. It’s our night. Let’s go and have fun!” “No, wait,” I say sharply, staying them with a hand. “What do you mean you know?” Kaylee rolls her eyes. Her thick, spider-leg lashes flutter as she shakes her head. “Anna Kendrick and John Cho? Two mysterious dates from other schools, one for the town lesbo and one for the student council president who thinks she’s subtle when she holds her hand in public? I mean, come on.” “Plus, you’re always standing up for her,” Shelby notes casually. “And you let those weirdos from New York come to our meeting. It’s kind of obvious.” “Why didn’t you say anything?” I ask, feeling faint and slightly sick.”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical

“I back away from her, because I don’t know this woman. This calculating, manipulative person masquerading as my mother is terrifying. She stepped right out of Game of Thrones and into Game of Proms. And she won. I have to get away from Elena Lannister Greene. If I look at her for one more second, I’m honestly afraid I might throw up.”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical

“She’s been using her mom as the reason she can’t come out for months, and suddenly I realize, it’s not a reason. It’s an excuse. Yeah, her mom is obviously a bigot and a homophobe, but it looks like Alyssa’s carrying some of that on her own.”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical

“\We’re told to hide this beautiful part of ourselves, the falling-in-love part, the dizzy infatuation part.”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical

“No, I don’t.” Her voice has no edge to it; it’s defeated. “I’ve had a lot of time to think, and I’m like . . . maybe I’m just an experiment to you. Or maybe you’re trying to piss off your mom, I don’t know.” Stung, I step back. “An experiment? What else, Emma? Are you wondering if this is just a phase?” Emma’s eyes flash. “That’s not what I meant and you know it.” “It’s what you said.” I let go of her.”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical

“She backs out, and as her car moves farther and farther away from me, all I want to do is scream and scream, until my voice shears into ribbons and disappears completely. I have done nothing but achieve, jump through hoops, and put on smiles. And it’s not enough. The blue ribbons and first-place trophies, my extracurriculars and my Sunday school class—I have done every single thing my mother wanted . . . for nothing. Because she’s never going to stop wanting me to be perfect Alyssa Greene, and I’m never going to actually be her. Never. Slumping against the hood of my car, I cover my face with my hands and start to cry. The one thing that was mine, the one beautiful thing that I chose, that made me feel whole and human and alive, just drove away. And I let her.”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical

“I mentioned a while back that I am the worst person in the world, and the last two days have done nothing to change my opinion on that.”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical

“She never once outed me. She never told anyone that her girlfriend went to the other prom. That her girlfriend’s mother is the reason this all got started and ended up so out of hand. She never blamed me; she never named me. She never even mentioned that we agreed to go together and I backed out on her. All this time, she’s been protecting me, and I didn’t even see it until now. And then, she plays. The silent chords suddenly have voice, and she sings words that she said to me what seems like a million years ago.”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical

“I’m not the perfect student, I’m not the perfect daughter, and I’m definitely not the perfect girlfriend.”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical