Sapphic Love Quotes

“Hélène Lagonelle’s body is heavy, innocent still, her skin’s as soft as that of certain fruits, you almost can’t grasp her, she’s almost illusory, it’s too much. She makes you want to kill her, she conjures up a marvelous dream of putting her to death with your own hands. Those flour-white shapes, she bears them unknowingly, and offers them for hands to knead, for lips to eat, without holding them back, without any knowledge of them and without any knowledge of their fabulous power. I’d like to eat Hélène Lagonelle’s breasts as he eats mine in the room in the Chinese town where I go every night to increase my knowledge of God. I’d like to devour and be devoured by those flour-white breasts of hers.
I am worn out with desire for Hélène Lagonelle.
I am worn out with desire.
I want to take Hélène Lagonelle with me to where every evening, my eyes shut, I have imparted to me the pleasure that makes you cry out. I’d like to give Hélène Lagonelle to the man who does that to me, so he may do it in turn to her. I want it to happen in my presence, I want her to do it as I wish, I want her to give herself where I give myself. It’s via Hélène Lagonelle’s body, through it, that the ultimate pleasure would pass from him to me.
A pleasure unto death.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

“This girl who was soft at heart, who was both the vast, dark woods and the glorious light of a full moon, who was angry at all the thousand tiny ways she’d been hurt in her life.”
― Laura Steven, The Society For Soulless Girls

“I understood that there were limits to love, and I felt sure that one day people would run out of love for me.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“She hadn't anticipated Maud Blyth. She didn't know how anyone ever could.”
― Freya Marske, A Restless Truth

“You are cruel even in love," Iona whispers, "How can you make me feel this way? I ought to hate you. I wanted to hate you.”
― Luna Oblonsky, Her Spell That Binds Me

“I have caught a nymph,” Ariadne grins, “Now what shall I do to her?”
― Luna Oblonsky, Her Spell That Binds Me

“Do you remember, darling
A year ago today
When we gave ourselves to each other
Before you went away
At the end of that pleasant summer weather
Which we had spent by the sea together?

How little we knew, my darling,
All that the year would bring!
Did I think of the wretched mornings
When I should kiss my ring
And long with all my heart to see
The girl who gave the ring to me?

We have not been sorry darling
We loved each other so-
We will not take back the promises
We made a year ago-

And so again, my darling
I give myself to you,
With graver thought than a year ago
With love that is deep and true.”
― Sarah Orne Jewett

“Love doesn't mean 'I never want you to change.' But I don't think it means 'I don't care if you change,' either. So I suppose it might mean... 'I believe that you'll always be the person I adore.' A declaration of faith.”
― Nakatani Nio, Bloom into You (やがて君になる), Vol. 7

“Cathy believed that the more she and Edie thirsted, the deeper their roots would snare inside each other. They would find inside each other's bodies all the water they wanted.”
― K-Ming Chang, Bone House

“I am hers and she is mine. We have nothing to fear anymore. To love her is my fate and I will thank the stars every night for their intervention, Iona thinks to herself.”
― Luna Oblonsky, Her Spell That Binds Me

“I love you,” Maya whispers.

Lucía glances back at Maya. Their eyes catch, and they both smile, secrets kept between their lips, inside jokes still caught in their gaze.

“I love you, too.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Overcrowded Heart

“A Lie: You’re not my girlfriend
The truth: we both know exactly who we are to each other

If you want to get technical..
if you counted up the hours i spent thinking of you and the days we spent in your bedroom
If we measured all the ways we touched and the things we’ve said
If we weigh the promise that I will always be here or somewhere loving you
I am definitely and irrevocably way more than that”
― Ashley Woodfolk, Nothing Burns as Bright as You: A Wild YA Love Story of Two Girls, Queer Hearts, and Fire

“I thought of you today, for I was over in the fields and found a brookful of delicious crisp water-cresses, but I shall let them grow until you come, for I don't think anybody cares much for them. I pulled two or three and washed them in the brook and thought there never were any so good. Some day we will take a piece of bread and butter and go there and have a banquet.”
― Sarah Orne Jewett, Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett

“I shall be with you tomorrow, your dear birthday. How I am looking forward to Thursday evening. I don't care whether there is starlight or a fog. Yes, dear, I will bring the last sketch and give it its last touches if you think I had better any more time on it. I am tired of writing things. I want now to paint things, and drive things, and kiss things...”
― Sarah Orne Jewett, Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett

“It was always nice to meet someone who understood exactly where you were coming from. Somebody who knew that when women dated other women, the whole idea of a sisterhood went out the window. Nobody could break your heart like a woman.”
― Clare Lydon, It Started with a Kiss

“Part of my life was never the same after Brooke left, and I wasn't sure it ever would be."

Choose Us”
― Nicole Spencer-Skillen, Choose Us

“Age is but a number, and love knows no bounds - older women writers beautifully capture the essence of sapphic romance.”
― Barbara Laughlin

“How romantic and dreamy.” My mistress sighed. “I should make someone pick a lover’s quarrel with me.”

“I could do it.” The jest slipped out, my brain catching up seconds later to what my mouth had just said.

“Would you, really?” Viola asked quietly.

The mood shifted, the light, playful air between us dissolving.”
― Anita Zara, The Maid's Secret

“And Isabella made a noise, just a slight noise. And at that, I began to unwind”
― Anbara Salam, Belladonna

“How pitiful,” Ariadne says, her eyes filled with resentment, “To be infatuated with someone who bests you at every turn. Feel free to continue dreaming of me as you have, because that is the only way you could have me. I shall be the superior witch at this school and win Morgan’s pendant, as is my right. The victory will only be sweeter knowing how much you want me while I do it.”
― Luna Oblonsky, Her Spell That Binds Me

“My speckled beauty,” Ariadne whispers in Iona’s ear, “You cannot know how you have captivated me. I dreamed of you, wished for you, ached for only you, perhaps even more than you did for me. Every second in your presence was exquisite torture. You must know how much power you have over me, then and now.”
― Luna Oblonsky, Her Spell That Binds Me

“I must admit your brooding has a certain allure, though I prefer your smile,” Iona says.”
― Luna Oblonsky, Her Spell That Binds Me

“Whatever is to thank for our affinity, I will never let you go. Not now,” Ariadne vows.”
― Luna Oblonsky, Her Spell That Binds Me

“The first time she’d met Lucía, she’d actually done a double-take. One, because Lucía had a floppy, mohawk-like shave, and it really, really suited her, but more so because she was wearing boots that looked like they were the army and a black shirt turned inside out and artistically severed, so that her stomach was just peeking through, and Maya could see she was an outie (which could have killed her).”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Ones Who Couldn't Let Go

“Jude was not human before she met Maya. She was a changeling, a facsimile: something that only ever looked human, but never knew what human felt like. So, of course, Maya ruined her. She took Jude’s hollow bones and filled them with thoughts and emotions like lead, so that she fell down to earth—so that she couldn’t fly away anymore.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Overcrowded Heart

“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

“Being queer was like holding the golden ticket to a club nobody wanted to go to. I had no idea that once I blasted down those closet doors, with their bouncers of fear, religion, and internal bias, the club would be lit. The way a party can be when everyone inside finally knows what it means to come home.

My queerness is a Tupperware container (thank god) that nobody will ever find a lid for. A box that cannot be closed. The reclamation of wholeness over goodness, transforming the perpetual misfit into one holy hell of a celebration.

Owning my queerness was like learning the desert floor was once the bottom of the ocean, meaning the towering 200-year-old saguaro watching over me was somehow born underwater. It is the dogged insistence on coloring outside of every single line.

It is the refusal to accept a singular definition that makes the word witch at me finally feel at home in the spaces where words are left behind.

My queerness rests its foundation on a ground named freedom. I speak it loudly because I have the freedom to do so without fear of reprisal or harm. I claim this life of mine under the rainbow and the complexity of the history it has given me fiercely.

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

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

“I wished for you so much, it was a day you would have loved.”
― Sarah Orne Jewett, Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett

“She
wanted
a quick chase and release.

I
laid
my head
on her chest
and was stunned
by my sudden wish
to never move again”
― Claudia Pannozzo, Spiraleggiante: Raccolta di poesie

“Outside, the rain hadn’t let up. I watched her cross toward her building, hood low, shoulders sure.
My forever, I thought. Like saying it might make it true.”
― Aya Canicosa, Of Chasing Raindrops