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“Cleopatra, Patroclus. Her name built from the same pieces as mine, only reversed.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Another thing you need to remember, and something that, for some reason, has never really occurred to you before: You can ask things of others too. You can ask them to compromise. It is not always you who have to.”
― Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

“Given a choice between my life and yours, I will choose mine. Every time. Without hesitation.”
― Rae Carson, The Crown of Embers

“The erasure of variation means the erasure of choice and the triumph of stereotype and stigma.”
― Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex