Thea

“If the girls weren't here, I'd wrap my arms around him. If the girls weren't here, I'd tell him that there's not a single horrible thing about him. That he is calmer and kinder than anyone I've ever met. That he has taken the best traits I associate with each gender and made a cocktail of them all. The deepest parts of chivalry. The oldest kind of beauty”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, All Our Hidden Gifts

“I guess your gender feel natural to you. I'm jealous," he replies. Then he pauses. Thinks about it. "Except, actually, no. I don't think I am. I used to be. But the more I let myself just exist, the more fun it gets. So I try not to question it or label it. I'm trying to just see everything as.. negotiable.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, All Our Hidden Gifts

“I'm demi," I say. Then stupidly, I clarify "-sexual. Not demiromantic or a demigirl or a demigod like Hercules." [...]
"I didn't think you were coming out to me as the mythological hero Hercules."
"Sorry, I don't always know what other people know about the asexual spectrum.”
― Alison Cochrun, Kiss Her Once for Me

“Die Erinnerung ist zuerst wie eine Umarmung und wird danach zu einem harten Schlag ins Gesicht, bevor sie in das Nichts verschwindet und man sich der nächsten hingibt. Aber selbst wenn man es wüsste, würde man sich erinnern. Weil dieser kurze Moment des Glücks jeden Schmerz wert ist.”
― Ava Reed, Die Stille meiner Worte