Lgbt Love Quotes

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That is β€” your friend?" "Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.
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Madeline Miller (The Song of Achilles)
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The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
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Rita Mae Brown
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Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though I’m not sure if I’d like to be and argh I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.
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Jess C. Scott (Tongue-Tied)
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Two dudes met. They fell in love. They lived. That's our story.
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Adam Silvera (They Both Die at the End (Death-Cast, #1))
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What sexual preference do you hope she has?” β€œHappiness.” Isnt that cool?
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Francesca Lia Block (Weetzie Bat (Weetzie Bat, #1))
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Girls love each other like animals. There is something ferocious and unself-conscious about it. We don't guard ourselves like we do with boys. No one trains us to shield our hearts from each other. With girls, it's total vulnerability from the beginning. Our skin is bare and soft. We love with claws and teeth and the blood is just proof of how much. It's feral. And it's relentless.
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Leah Raeder (Black Iris)
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She's happy with who she is. Maybe it's not the heteronormative dream that she grew up wishing for, but... knowing who you are and loving yourself is so much better than that, I think.
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Alice Oseman (Loveless)
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It’s okay. It may not seem like it right now, but you are going to be fine. I know it’s scary, but don’t be afraid. You are who you are, and you should love that person, and I don’t want anyone to have to go through 22 years of their life afraid to accept that.
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Connor Franta
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There are worst things in life than kissing boys.
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Benjamin Alire SΓ‘enz (Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1))
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To Julian, he asked, "Is Yadriel your friend?" The word burned. "Β‘Mi querido!" he snapped viciously.
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Aiden Thomas (Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1))
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To think that God loves the trees, but condemns that blossoming thing they do in the spring.
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Christina Lauren (Autoboyography)
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Love isn’t a choice. You fall for the person, not their chromosomes.
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I.W. Gregorio (None of the Above)
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the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.
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Dan Savage (American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics)
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Was it love or wasn't it that she felt for Carol? And how absurd it was that she didn't even know. She had heard about girls falling in love, and she knew what kind of people they were and what they looked like. Neither she nor Carol looked like that. Yet the way she felt about Carol passed all the tests for love and fitted all the descriptions.
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Patricia Highsmith (The Price of Salt)
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Me being in love with a girl and wanting her to be with me, doing what I need to do to make her stay with me; it affects no one, yet it’s terrifying to people and they think you’re a monster.
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Sara Quin
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I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows.
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E.M. Forster
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If you love your country, you must be willing to defend it from fraud, bigotry, and recklessness--even from a president.
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DaShanne Stokes
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All I can tell you is this. Some hearts break from grief some from joy. Some even break from love. But hearts break because they are too small to contain the gifts life gives us. Your task will be to let your heart grow large enough not to break
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Catherine M. Wilsonson
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If I was gay, I wouldn't need an asterisk beside my name. I could stop worrying if the girl I like will bounce when she finds out I also like dick. I could have a coming-out party without people thinking I just want attention. I wouldn't have to explain that I fall in love with minds, not genders or body parts. People wouldn't say I'm 'just a slut' or 'faking it' or 'undecided' or 'confused.' I'm not confused. I don't categorize people by who I'm allowed to like and who I'm allowed to love. Love doesn't fit into boxes like that. It's blurry, slippery, quantum. It's only limited by our perceptions and before we slap a label on it and cram it into some category, everything is possible.
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Leah Raeder (Black Iris)
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Love has no gender - compassion has no religion - character has no race.
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Abhijit Naskar (Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality)
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What do you say when The Girl tells you that you're The Girl to her?
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Casey McQuiston (I Kissed Shara Wheeler)
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No matter whether you’re a gay or a mixed race couple; when you’re drawn together, ultimately it doesn’t matter what everybody thinks because it’s so honest, true, and sincere. How can that be wrong?
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Tegan Quin
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It angered him that his sexuality was an issue at all. As far as he was concerned, who he decided to sleep with was his business alone.
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Christina Westover (Precipice)
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His hand lay across my stomach as he slept soundly. I entwined my fingers with his and breathed through the warmth that seeped through my chest. Such a simple, sweet thing to do, yet holding hands in bed was incredibly intimate.
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N.R. Walker (Spencer Cohen, Book Three (Spencer Cohen, #3))
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My wife's the reason anything gets done, she nudges me towards promise by degrees. She is a perfect symphony of one our son is her most beautiful reprise. We chase the melodies that seem to find us until they're finished songs and start to play. When senseless acts of tragedy remind us that nothing here is promised--not one day. This show is proof that history remembers. We live in times when hate and fear seem stronger. We rise and fall and light from dying embers--remembrances that hope and love last longer. And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside. I sing Vanessa's symphony. Eliza tells her story. Now, fill the world with music, love, and pride.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda
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They should love you, just as you are. Parents should love their kids, right?" "You'd think so.
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N.R. Walker (Spencer Cohen, Book Three (Spencer Cohen, #3))
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The only opinion I have is that I could never look someone in the eye and tell them that they didn’t love someone that they know they love. It’s not my job to judge and it’s not a job I’d want. I love people a lot. All kinds. If we were meant to be the same then we wouldn’t be human.
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Hayley Williams
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Love should never mean having to live in fear.
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DaShanne Stokes
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But where was God now, with heaven full of astronauts, and the Lord overthrown? I miss God. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal. I still don't think of God as my betrayer. The servants of God, yes, but servants by their very nature betray. I miss God who was my friend. I don't even know if God exists, but I do know that if God is your emotional role model, very few human relationships will match up to it. I have an idea that one day it might be possible, I thought once it had become possible, and that glimpse has set me wandering, trying to find the balance between earth and sky. If the servants hadn't rushed in and parted us, I might have been disappointed, might have snatched off the white samite to find a bowl of soup. As it is, I can't settle, I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and know that love is as strong as death, and be on my side for ever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me. There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name. Romantic love has been diluted into paperback form and has sold thousands and millions of copies. Somewhere it is still in the original, written on tablets of stone. I would cross seas and suffer sunstroke and give away all I have, but not for a man, because they want to be the destroyer and never the destroyed.
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Jeanette Winterson (Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit)
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What do you want? I want to stop living in fear. I want to stop coming up with excuses about why I'm not interested in dating. I want my family to know me. I want to get to learn more about Lisa. I want to stop feeling like everything I am is inadequate or makes me unworthy of love because of something I can't help.
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Sara Farizan (Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel)
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I am small. So are stars from a distance. It's all a matter of perspective.
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C. Kennedy (Slaying Isidore's Dragons)
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I want youβ€”" "Then fucking have me." "β€”but I don't want this." Alex wants to grab Henry and shake him, wants to scream in his face, wants to smash every priceless antique in the room. "What does that even mean?" "I don't want it!" Henry practically shouts. His eyes are flashing, wet and angry and afraid. "Don't you bloody see? I'm not like you. I can't afford to be reckless. I don't have a family who will support me. I don't go about shoving who I am in everyone's faces and dreaming about a career in fucking politics, so I can be more scrutinized and picked apart by the entire godforsaken world. I can love you and want you and still not want that life. I'm allowed, all right, and it doesn't make me a liar; it makes me a man with some infinitesimal shred of self-preservation, unlike you, and you don't get to come here and call me a coward for it.
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Casey McQuiston (Red, White & Royal Blue)
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It's stillness and pressure and rhythm and breathing.
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Becky Albertalli (Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Simonverse, #1))
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If anyone makes you feel less than you are, for the color of you skin, for where you come from, for the gender of the person you love, for the religion you have faith in, stand up, speak up, roar. No silence till we are equal.
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Thisuri Wanniarachchi (COLOMBO STREETS)
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I wondered if I was strong enough or good enough to love a world that hated me
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Benjamin Alire SΓ‘enz (Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Signed Book))
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Yeah, I loved her. I couldn't help it. She was my brother.
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Julie Anne Peters (Luna (National Book Award Finalist))
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My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion. Why make life miserable for someone when you could be using your energy for good? We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful. When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.
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Taylor Swift
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Do you fall in love with boys or with girls?" I asked her. "Sometimes boys," she replied. "Mostly souls.
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Juansen Dizon (Confessions of a Wallflower)
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If two people could make each other smile and laugh and forget all the pain and darkness in the world for a moment, why should we feel ashamed of it?
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Leah Raeder (Cam Girl)
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Love Is Not A choice
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brendon urie
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Perhaps once one realised how deeply one could bond with a creature as foreign as a dragon, all forms of human love seemed more acceptable.
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Robin Hobb (Blood of Dragons (Rain Wild Chronicles, #4))
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I can't believe you rode the Tilt-A-Whirl for me. "I must really like you," he says.
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Becky Albertalli (Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Simonverse, #1))
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The mere fact that I exist means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn why I please.
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Euphoria Godsent
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A tiny pathetic thought: the warmth of Ayla's touch rivaled the afternoon sun.
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Nina Varela (Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2))
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I wrote too many poems in a language I did not yet know how to speak.
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Andrea Gibson
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That lovely face sets off a fire inside me that isn't ever supposed to burn.
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Robin Talley (Lies We Tell Ourselves)
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She had seen just now what she had only sensed before, that the whole world was ready to be their enemy, and suddenly what she and Carol had together seemed no longer love or anything happy but a monster between them, with each of them caught in a fist.
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Patricia Highsmith (The Price of Salt)
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We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much we had to hide our love, however guarded we had to be about our pleasure, I could not long be miserable about a thing so very sweet. Nor, in my gladness, could I quite believe that anybody would be anything but happy for me if only they knew.
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Sarah Waters (Tipping the Velvet)
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Frankly, I'm not responsible for other people's perceptions and what they consider real or fake. We must abolish the entitlement that deludes us into believing that we have the right to make assumptions about people's identities and project those assumptions onto their genders and bodies.
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Janet Mock (Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More)
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June, you have killed my sincerity too. I will never again know who I am, what I am, what I love, what I want. Your beauty has drowned me, the core of me. You carry away with you a part of me reflected in you. When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. You are the woman I want to be. I see in you that part of me which is you. I feel compassion for your childish pride, for your trembling unsureness, your dramatization of events, your enhancing of the loves given to you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madness.
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AnaΓ―s Nin (The Diary of AnaΓ―s Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934)
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Either you are homophobic or you are a human - you cannot be both.
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Abhijit Naskar (Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality)
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Being homosexual is no more abnormal than being lefthanded.
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Abhijit Naskar (Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality)
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Brandt Solberg had never been a good man, but what did that matter? Fox hadn't fallen in love with his goodness.
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Olivie Blake (Masters of Death)
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I’ve been convinced that LGBT Christians have a special role to play in teaching the church how to be Christian.
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Rachel Held Evans (Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church)
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And without my consent, with my defences in ruins, while my brain was sleeping, my stupid heart went and fell headfirst into love.
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N.R. Walker (Spencer Cohen, Book Two (Spencer Cohen, #2))
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I love you." His voice shook the tiniest amount, making my heart swell too big for my chest. "More than anything in this universe. But you can't tell anyone.
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Lily Mayne (Soul Eater (Monstrous, #1))
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What I love about being queer is... Everything. I like that it makes me different, and I like that it makes people uncomfortable sometimes. I like that it makes people ask me lots of questions about things they probably would not normally ask people about their relationships or lifestyles. And most of all I love being queer because i get to have a girlfriend.
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Tegan Quin
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To every LGBTQIA+ person who has questioned their place in life: You're strong. You're important. You're a lion. Let the world hear you roar.
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Julian Winters (Running with Lions)
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No. I donΒ΄t think it does go away. I know it wonΒ΄t for me. I will keep busy. I will distract myself. I will eventually have days when I donΒ΄t have to remind myself to breathe. I know Nasrin will exist, maybe even be happy, and I will be okay. I Β΄ll bury my love, but it will never really go away.
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Sara Farizan (If You Could Be Mine)
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Too late, too late, your love gave me life. Here am I the creature you made through your loving; by your passion you created the thing that I am. Who are you to deny me the right to love? But for you I need never have known existence.
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Radclyffe Hall (The Well of Loneliness)
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There are too many people who love me, and accept me, and never try and change me, and who don’t condemn me in the slightest, for me to waste even one moment of my life anymore worrying about what other people will think.
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Dan Pearce (Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One)
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If no one on this planet ever loves you, I always will.
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C.J. Reid (RUSH Book Two: California Nights)
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What does love mean if we would deny it to others?
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DaShanne Stokes
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It's what he needs, and whether he ever admits it to us or not, it's what he loves" - Theoden (From Commanded:House of Theoden)
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Nicholas Bella (Commanded (House of Theoden, #1))
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I am, and always have been - first, last, and always - a child of America. You raised me. I grew up in the pastures and hills of Texas, but I had been to thirty-four states before I learned how to drive. When I caught the stomach flu in the fifth grade, my mother sent a note to school written on the back of a holiday memo from Vice President Biden. Sorry, sirβ€”we were in a rush, and it was the only paper she had on hand. I spoke to you for the first time when I was eighteen, on the stage of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, when I introduced my mother as the nominee for president. You cheered for me. I was young and full of hope, and you let me embody the American dream: that a boy who grew up speaking two languages, whose family was blended and beautiful and enduring, could make a home for himself in the White House. You pinned the flag to my lapel and said, β€œWe’re rooting for you.” As I stand before you today, my hope is that I have not let you down. Years ago, I met a prince. And though I didn’t realize it at the time, his country had raised him too. The truth is, Henry and I have been together since the beginning of this year. The truth is, as many of you have read, we have both struggled every day with what this means for our families, our countries, and our futures. The truth is, we have both had to make compromises that cost us sleep at night in order to afford us enough time to share our relationship with the world on our own terms. We were not afforded that liberty. But the truth is, also, simply this: love is indomitable. America has always believed this. And so, I am not ashamed to stand here today where presidents have stood and say that I love him, the same as Jack loved Jackie, the same as Lyndon loved Lady Bird. Every person who bears a legacy makes the choice of a partner with whom they will share it, whom the American people will β€œhold beside them in hearts and memories and history books. America: He is my choice. Like countless other Americans, I was afraid to say this out loud because of what the consequences might be. To you, specifically, I say: I see you. I am one of you. As long as I have a place in this White House, so will you. I am the First Son of the United States, and I’m bisexual. History will remember us. If I can ask only one thing of the American people, it’s this: Please, do not let my actions influence your decision in November. The decision you will make this year is so much bigger than anything I could ever say or do, and it will determine the fate of this country for years to come. My mother, your president, is the warrior and the champion that each and every American deserves for four more years of growth, progress, and prosperity. Please, don’t let my actions send us backward. I ask the media not to focus on me or on Henry, but on the campaign, on policy, on the lives and livelihoods of millions of Americans at stake in this election. And finally, I hope America will remember that I am still the son you raised. My blood still runs from Lometa, Texas, and San Diego, California, and Mexico City. I still remember the sound of your voices from that stage in Philadelphia. I wake up every morning thinking of your hometowns, of the families I’ve met at rallies in Idaho and Oregon and South Carolina. I have never hoped to be anything other than what I was to you then, and what I am to you nowβ€”the First Son, yours in actions and words. And I hope when Inauguration Day comes again in January, I will continue to be.
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Casey McQuiston (Red, White & Royal Blue)
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your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before you, I replied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own rhythm you play upon me, drumming me taught.
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Jeanette Winterson
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the love some girls have for other girls is so gentle & so soft & so fucking beautiful, & these girls deserve to have better stories than the ones where they are murdered because they love with too much of their hearts. - love is never a weakness
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Amanda Lovelace (The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1))
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I didn't come up with the lie. It wasn't mine. They handed the lie to me, and I tried like hell to make it work for a while.
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Kenneth Logan (True Letters from a Fictional Life)
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...How I adore you and want you. You can't know how much...I love belonging to you-- I glory in it, that you alone have bent me to your will, shattered my self-possession, robbed me of my mystery, and made me yours, so that away from you I am nothing but a useless puppet, an empty husk.
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Violet Trefusis (Violet to Vita: The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-1921)
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We weren't made to be alone. We were made to love. And when we love, we automatically know God without trying to, because God is love. If we love as he made us to loveβ€”if we love with our hearts instead of our criteriaβ€”then we simply are love.
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Kelly Quindlen (Her Name in the Sky)
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I mean, I really liked him to the point where being around him was sort of wonderful and painful all at the same time, you know?
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Kenneth Logan (True Letters from a Fictional Life)
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The power of love is that it sees all people.
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DaShanne Stokes
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Better is one day in the company of those bullied by Christians but loved by Jesus than thousands in the company of those wielding scripture to harm the weak and defenseless.
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David P. Gushee (Changing Our Mind: A call from America's leading evangelical ethics scholar for full acceptance of LGBT Christians in the Church)
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He looks at me. And smiles. "Just us remember?To the moon," he whispers.
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James Brandon (Ziggy, Stardust and Me)
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I was doing my little stand up shtick, the one I did for pretty girls, so they'd like me quickly and wouldn't try too hard to actually get to know me beyond my role as wisecracking Cameron, the orphan. Maybe it was a little like flirting, but also a kind of protection: Don't get too close; I'm just jokes with substance.
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Emily M. Danforth (The Miseducation of Cameron Post)
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The difference between being content and being blissfully happy is unquantifiable, and only those who experience the latter can understand just how mediocre the former can be.
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Emma Shane (The Taste of Lavender)
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Then came the most exquisite moment of her whole life passing a stone urn with flowers in it. Sally stopped; picked a flower; kissed her on the lips. The whole world might have turned upside down! The others disappeared; there she was alone with Sally. And she felt that she had been given a present, wrapped up, and told just to keep it, not to look at it β€” a diamond, something infinitely precious, wrapped up, which, as they walked (up and down, up and down), she uncovered, or the radiance burnt through, the revelation, the religious feeling!
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Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway)
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I glanced back to Yanni to see him smiling at us. "You two can stop being so cute now." "Well, Spencer can," Andrew deadpanned. "I, unfortunately, am cute all the time." I laughed. "It's true. He is.
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N.R. Walker (Spencer Cohen, Book Three (Spencer Cohen, #3))
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A conversation in which the two parties have different beliefs should never begin with the intention of converting the other party to your own beliefs. Every worthwhile conversation's goal should be to understand the other person's opinions and help them understand your own.
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Emily Eskowich
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i can love as Aristotle who coined the term β€œphilΓ­a” loved his brothers it isn’t that hard of a concept to grasp but because i am not grasping someone else you think there is something wrong with me but i am fine
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Courtney Carola (Have Some Pride: A Collection of LGBTQ+ Inspired Poetry)
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If you are in the closet and fall in love with someone of the same gender, it doesn't automatically remove the shame and fear that's kept you locked away. The love you are experiencing encourages you to face the reality that this is who you really are and also has the power to set you free. The richness, beauty and depths of love can only be fully experienced in a climate of complete openness, honesty and vulnerability. Love, the most powerful of human emotions, is calling you to freedom and wholeness.
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Anthony Venn-Brown OAM (A Life of Unlearning - a journey to find the truth)
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...It had all happened in that instant she had seen Carol standing in the middle of the floor, watching her. Then the realization that so much had happened after that meeting made her feel incredibly lucky suddenly. It was so easy for a man and woman to find each other, to find someone who would do, but for her to have found Carol-
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Patricia Highsmith (The Price of Salt)
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They must live outside class, without relations or money; they must work and stick to each other till death. But England belonged to them. That, besides companionship, was their reward. Her air and sky were theirs, not the timorous millions' who own stuffy little boxes, but never their own souls.
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E.M. Forster (Maurice)
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ten reasons to love being queer viii. the people within our community are so supportive and so caring and so loving, most of the time towards people they don’t even know and it is in moments like that when you realize that the queer community is more than a community we are a family
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Courtney Carola (Have Some Pride: A Collection of LGBTQ+ Inspired Poetry)
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Try not to be self-conscious […] or so critical. Don’t mope around looking for someone else to make you happy, and remember that the vast majority of homosexuals are looking for a superman to love and find it very difficult to love anyone merely human, which we unfortunately happen to be.
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Andrew Holleran (Dancer from the Dance)
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In loving him, I saw a cigarette between the fingers of a hand, smoke blowing backwards into the room and sputtering planes diving low through the clouds. In loving him, I saw men encouraging each other to lay down their arms. In loving him, I saw small-town laborers creating excavations that other men spend their lives trying to fill. In loving him, I saw moving films of stone buildings; I saw a hand in prison dragging snow in from the sill. In loving him, I saw great houses being erected that would soon slide into the waiting and stirring seas. I saw him freeing me from the silences of the interior life.
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David Wojnarowicz (Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration)
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WE SPENT THE AFTERNOON BUILDING "FOR SERVICE," HE SAID. NEW PIECES, NEW PLACES, NEW PARTS TO BE PUT HERE AND THERE AND TAKEN FOR GRANTED. BUT IT FELT GOOD, AND I TOLD HIM THAT. HE RESTED A PLANK ON HIS SHOULDER LIKE A BAYONET. AND I NEARLY LAUGHED, THINKING, IS THIS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO FALL IN LOVE WITH A SOLDIER ON THE OTHER SIDE?
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Christina Lauren (Autoboyography)
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Sometimes life takes unexpected turns. Sometimes we hide the very core of our existence because we fear the judgment of others. Sometimes the universe shifts and we are provided with a brief moment to begin anew. These moments allow us to become fearless and let our perfectly created souls shine.
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Cori Ferguson (New Beginnings)
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I’m in love with that girl,” she said out loud in amazement, because she knew that this was a life-changing thing and life-changing things should be said aloud, should have a moment in time, and a place in the air, some molecular structure to make them real. I’m in love with that girl, she heard as it reverberated inside her head. And it was truth, she realised, as things are which you don’t think, but discover have always existed.
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Paula Boock (Dare Truth or Promise)
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The God of Imagination lived in fairytales. And the best fairytales made you fall in love. It was while flicking through "Sleeping Beauty" that I met my first love, Ivar. He was a six-year-old bello ragazzo with blond hair and eyebrows. He had bomb-blue eyes and his two front teeth were missing. The road to Happily Ever After, however, was paved with political barbed wire. Three things stood in my way. 1. The object of my affection didn't know he was the object of my affection. 2. The object of my affection preferred Action Man to Princess Aurora. 3. The object of my affection was a boy and I wasn't allowed to love a boy.
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Diriye Osman (Fairytales for Lost Children)
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I left the bed as she had left it, unmade and rumpled, coverlets awry, so that her body's print might rest still warm beside my own. Until the next day I did not go to bathe, I wore no clothes and did not dress my hair, for fear I might erase some sweet caress. That morning I did not eat, nor yet at dusk, and put no rouge nor powder on my lips, so that her kiss might cling a little longer. I left the shutters closed, and did not open the door, for fear the memory of the night before might vanish with the wind.
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Pierre LouΓΏs (The Songs of Bilitis)
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There are those from religious backgrounds who resist and oppose LGBT equality; some very obsessively and publicly. They make bold accusations and negative statements about gay and lesbian people, their supposed "lifestyle" and relationships. But when a son, daughter, brother, sister or close friend comes out it is no longer an "issue" it becomes a person. They realise everything they'd said was painfully targeted at someone they love. Then......everything changes.
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Anthony Venn-Brown OAM (A Life of Unlearning - one man's journey to find the truth)
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Straight Americans need an education of the heart and soul. They must understand - to begin with - how it can feel to spend years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes, meals, and church services while people you love toss off remarks that brutalize your soul.
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Bruce Bawer
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When you hear of Gay Pride, remember, it was not born out of a need to celebrate being gay. It evolved out of our need as human beings to break free of oppression and to exist without being criminalized, pathologized or persecuted. Depending on a number of factors, particularly religion, freeing ourselves from gay shame and coming to self-love and acceptance, can not only be an agonising journey, it can take years. Tragically some don't make it. Instead of wondering why there isn't a straight pride be grateful you have never needed one. Celebrate with us.
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Anthony Venn-Brown OAM (A Life of Unlearning - a journey to find the truth)
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The second dream is more difficult to convey. Nothing happened. He scarcely saw a face, scarcely heard a voice say, β€œThat is your friend,” and then it was over, having filled him with beauty and taught him tenderness. He could die for such a friend, he would allow such a friend to die for him; they would make any sacrifice for each other, and count the world nothing, neither death nor distance nor crossness could part them, because β€œthis is my friend.
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E.M. Forster (Maurice)
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The word bisexual had stood out so bright and clear in my head that all else had ceased to exist. Bisexual. I had a word. I understood; it was me… a nice clear label that said it all. I didn't have to choose. I didn’t have to be not attracted to either guys or girls β€” a prospect I had found utterly absurd and likely impossible, but had thought was perhaps necessary. Now it wasn’t necessary. Now it was okay to be me. I was not unheard of. Bisexual.
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Harrie Farrow (Love, Sex, and Understanding the Universe)
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He knew I was gay for ages," he said, his voice soft. "We both did. Since we were, like, ten or eleven, maybe. As soon as we understood what gay was, we knew that's what I was. We... We used to kiss sometimes, when we were kids. When we were alone. Just little childish kisses, little pecks on the lips because we thought it was fun. We were always... really affectionate with each other. We'd cuddle and... we were kind to each other, rather than nasty like most children. I think we were so caught up in each other that we just... missed all the heteronormative propaganda that's thrust at you when you're that age. We didn't really realize it was weird until - yeah, until we were ten or eleven. But that didn't really stop us. I guess... I guess I always felt like it was more romantic than Aled did. Aled always just treated it like it was something that friends did rather than boyfriends. Aled... he's always been weird. He doesn't care what people think. He doesn't even, like, register the social norms... he's just caught up in his own little world.
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Alice Oseman (Radio Silence)
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Aodhan glanced over,the faint smile on his face deeply welcome after two painful centuries when Illium hadn't been able to reach his friend, no matter how hard he tried. Aodhan's psychic scars might never fade, but he was rising past them in a show of grit and strength no one who didn't know him could fully understand. The twenty-three months Aodhan had been missing had been the most horrific period of Illium's life... worse than when he'd lost his mortal lover. He'd survived losing her. He didn't know if he could survive losing Aodhan. Never before had he seen that truth so clearly and it shook him.
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Nalini Singh, Archangel's Enigma
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I wasn’t raised in a household where it was considered abnormal to be gay. So for me to meet people who use the word 'faggot' as an insult, with a derogatory meaning, I can’t take it. I don’t understand it. It’s so foreign to me. I was raised in a household where being gay was like, the most normal thing. You know, my brother is gay, all of my best friends are gay. When my brother came out of the closet, it wasn’t a big deal for my family. Even my grandpa, who is like, super old-school, was like, Good for you! It’s outrageous to me when I see people hate on someone because of their sexuality. I hate the intolerance. I hate the judgment. I hate it so much. Most of my favorite people in my life are gay. It’s something I’m super passionate about, because whenever I would see my friends get bullied, or my brother get hurt for his sexuality, I would become a raging lunatic. I would literally become a raging lunatic because I just can’t take it. When you see someone you love hurting, for such a superficial, bullshit reason, it’s like, how small and spiritually unenlightened and dumb as fuck can a person be? How much further can your head get up your ass that you’re actually judging someone as a person based on their sexuality before you even have a conversation with them?
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Ariana Grande
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And yet, about two weeks after his arrival, all I wanted every night was for him to leave his room, not via its front door, but through the French windows on our balcony. I wanted to hear his window open, hear his espadrilles on the balcony, and then the sound of my own window, which was never locked, being pushed open as he’d step into my room after everyone had gone to bed, slip under my covers, undress me without asking, and after making me want him more than I thought I could ever want another living soul, gently, softly, and, with the kindness one Jew extends to another, work his way into my body, gently and softly, after heeding the words I’d been rehearsing for days now, Please, don’t hurt me, which meant, Hurt me all you want.
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AndrΓ© Aciman (Call Me by Your Name)