Jade

“Nothing means anything but you still have to follow the rules.”
― Scarlett Thomas, The End of Mr. Y

“And if you find someone with a head made of colors and a heart made of secrets, try to love them like they need to be loved. ”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“She was lost in that deep and certain sense that there was nothing beyond her own experience. As if there were only one way things could go, the years leading you down a corridor to the room where your inevitable self waited--embryonic, ready to be revealed. How sad it was to realize that sometimes you never got there. That sometimes you lived a whole life skittering across the surface as the years passed, unblessed.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

“For you, happiness is being with a man. For me, happiness is being among friends. Love takes many forms, Will Scarlet. If I must lie to the world to be true to my heart, then I'll lie. I'll cheat, I'll steal, and I'll do it with a smile. Love is the only higher power I answer to, and my love is no less for being chaste.”
― Elliot Wake, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages