“Maybe it's not about whether my crushes work out in the end. Maybe it never was. Maybe it's about letting myself have them. Letting myself feel love and lust and heartbreak, my own version of magnificent misery in the process, and never changing my heart for anyone's benefit but my own. I don't mind being the lover, the one who waits, but I won't hesitate to love myself with all I've got in the meantime.”
― Ophelia After All
― Ophelia After All
“HAMLET MAY HAVE BEEN A TRAGEDY. BUT OPHELIA DESERVED A COMEDY”
― Ophelia After All
― Ophelia After All
“Being queer is hard enough. Don’t lock yourself out of all of this just because you’re scared you won’t fit in the keyhole, without even trying.”
― Ophelia After All
― Ophelia After All
“She liked to ignore the fact that I had made love to men and enjoyed it. She liked to ignore it until the very moment she decided to be threatened by it. That seemed to be her pattern. I was a lesbian when she loved me and a straight woman when she hated me.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“It was in ourselves, and no matter what happened, that would always be part of our legacy.”
― Burn Down, Rise Up
― Burn Down, Rise Up
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