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“She's happy with who she is. Maybe it's not the heteronormative dream that she grew up wishing for, but... knowing who you are and loving yourself is so much better than that, I think.”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

tags: aromantic, asexual, lgbt, self-love

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“Love is letting someone have the power to hurt you in ways you haven’t even thought of yet.”
― Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do

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“I found myself taking more risks, because failure had a second life — it could spin a yarn. There was an agency in the retelling, in the self-deprecation and of course self-mythologizing. Memoir is how you groom yourself. Memoir is drag.”
― Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

tags: gay, memoir

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“Gay is the opium of the people.”
― Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

tags: gay, queer-politics

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“It was a soft kiss that only lasted for about two seconds, but I felt something in my stomach rev, like an old car trying to start. I wanted to see what it would feel like for the engine to turn over.”
― Celia Laskey, Under the Rainbow

tags: romance, sweet

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