Armando Zertuche

“And you know what? You don’t get to say it’s not a big thing. This is a big fucking thing, okay? This was supposed to be—this is mine. I’m supposed to decide when and where and who knows and how I want to say it.” Suddenly, my throat gets thick. “So, yeah, you took that from me. And then you brought Blue into it? Seriously? You fucking suck, Martin. I mean, I don’t even want to look at you.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“And you notice things and listen to things, but not in a nosy way. In a real way.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“Do you ever get so angry you start crying? And do you ever feel guilty for getting angry? Tell me I’m not weird.”
― Becky Albertalli, Love Simon: Simon Vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda

“I have to write.
I have to write and re-write myself in all that's hidden within me.
The unspoken heart is the place I need to travel to,
to rediscover the language that I had lost.

I felt and hoped myself empty in dreams that never belonged to me.
So how can I be with myself?

My heart struggled itself out of my body, lying shattered in pieces all over the places I've never been to and won't ever be, while my head is the only thing remaining, dethinking itself in all that hadn't been and won't ever be.”
― Dahi Tamara Koch, Within the event horizon: poetry & prose