JohnPaul

“Invisibility means not being able to connect with others like you. It means being very likely to come to the conclusion that you are broken. It means seeing no boxes to check and being filled with fear or shame or frustration. It means being isolated in a way that is unimaginable to most people”
― Julie Sondra Decker, The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality

“60 There were challenges, though, with going once more unto the breach. “Jason says, ‘Okay, you guys, hop up now,’” Aykroyd recalled of one take. “Yeah, there will be no ‘hopping up’ here. There will be a slow climb to one knee, a hefting of the pack, both hands grasping the automobile as a leverage point, and pulling myself up to my feet. That’s the ‘hop’ that you’re going to get.”61”
― Jr. Greene, James, A Convenient Parallel Dimension: How Ghostbusters Slimed Us Forever

“The judge encouraged the girl’s parents not to press charges because Riley came from a fine family and had his whole future ahead of him.”
― Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

“People are taught that they’re expected to like cross-sex partners. When asexual people find themselves not feeling heterosexual attraction, they look at the orientations available to them and sometimes think being gay is the only other option. They may also think they are bisexual, polysexual, or pansexual. Observing that their interest in one gender is the same as any other, they may pick up one of the terms that seems to describe that, without realizing asexuality is a possibility.”
― Julie Sondra Decker, The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality