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“Meeting him feels like learning about a part of myself that I haven’t been allowed to understand until now.”
― K. Ancrum, Icarus

“Avery needs to think about this as it's happening. Avery needs to understand it in order to enjoy it.”
― David Levithan, Ryan and Avery

“[I] felt abject in my hiddenness, my shadow-life, and because I had spent so long just watching, never acting, I was terrified of exposing my desire. I thought it would be shocking, that it would tear right through the fabric of the world and everyone would see it and know me and everyone would know that I was not a harmless thing, an undesiring thing, but that I had a fire insurgent within me, a buried fire that had been stoked furiously for so long that it would rage through the world if for a moment I let it out.”
― Seán Hewitt, Open, Heaven

“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre