Sarah

“I like you,” I whispered, taking her coffee from her and setting it on the table next to mine. “I like you so much that it scares me. And when I think about leaving and never seeing you again, it makes me feel like something’s being yanked out of me. Something important, something that I need to breathe and eat and live. I want more than memories with you, Bee. I want moments upon moments.”
― Julie Murphy, A Merry Little Meet Cute

“But the other part, the part that queer people maybe understand better than anyone else, is the act of a parent changing the shape of their home so it can fit you, and loving you as much as they always have. More, because they know you better now.”
― KT Hoffman, The Prospects

“We might've been a family in black, but our lives were filled with light and hope and joy.”
― Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics

“But if your parents pay the bills, they run the house. The emphasis is less on raising someone who can take care of themselves and more on following the ideas that have been passed down to you. And then suddenly, you're 18, you become a baby adult who is so angry and doesn't know how to self-soothe. You only know how to soothe your parents' nervous system.”
― Jonathan Van Ness, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love