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

“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

“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

“You were the only one it could be.”
― 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

“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

“She nodded so subtly as she passed, like we were both in the cartel, and the cartel was gay.”
― Eliana Ramage, To the Moon and Back

“Thank you for showing me that surviving is not always living.”
― K.R. Richard, Unified Shadow

“Hope is a feeling. You can hide from it. You can pretend nothing hurts you. But I've seen your heart, Oskaren Alinac. It might be broken, but it still beats.”
― Victoria Carbol, A Great and Powerful Tyranny

“Never, not once in her life, had anyone given her this feeling before. It was like this person was a cool, clear stream of water and she could jump in and wash herself clean of everything. She was looking for a religion maybe: and here it was. As simple as that.”
― Mariana Villa-Gilbert, A Jingle Jangle Song

“You wrote of being in a village upthread together, living as friends and neighbours do, and I could have swallowed this valley whole and still not have sated my hunger for the thought. Instead I wick the longing into thread, pass it through your needle eye, and sew it into hiding somewhere beneath my skin, time”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“The girl will always get the girl—but first, she may have to survive prophecy, betrayal, and a few beautifully terrible decisions.”
― G. Ennix, Bloodlines and Betrayals: Book One: The Awakening

“When she is close to happiness, I don’t mind being a casualty.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“I see the whole world being against me. And I’m not sure a girl who likes girls is someone I want to be.”
― Rebecca Bendheim, When You're Brave Enough

“With him. With you. With the fact that I can want him and then sit here and want you and not know whether that makes me false or greedy or just completely ordinary in a way no one bothered to mention.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim - A Sultryverse Story: A Dark Academia Thriller

“I had learned that no could be received without punishment and that asking did not make desire smaller, only cleaner.”
― Jean Thesquare

“The kiss was gentle at first, attentive, like she was listening through the lips.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim - A Sultryverse Story: A Dark Academia Thriller

“Sin,” she whispered before she was aware of the movement of her own lips.
Sinclaire’s lips twitched at the corners, not quite a smile, but more than enough to make Lark’s stomach do a little flip. “Yes, Lark?”
― K.J. Bradford, Demon for a Knight

“You saw me. When I struggled to even see myself. You chose me, and held me. As if it was the most natural thing in the world for you to do. As if it were as easy as breathing.”
― Lew Evans, Wipe Out

“Dylan can’t look away from Margot. She never will again. She looks at her now the way she looks at the ocean… as if it’s the most incredible thing she’s ever seen.”
― Lew Evans, Wipe Out

“When you’re always running from yourself… it’s hard to expect anybody to run to you.”
― Lew Evans, Wipe Out

“you may be a queen, but you are not my queen.”
― Samantha Shannon, Priory of the Orange Tree, The