Lgbtq Quotes

“What about trans women?" Zara asks, writing the question in her document. "How does that work?"
"Of course I have written invocations for trans women," Emer says. "Demons do not care about bodies. They only care about souls.”
― Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

“From the very first time I saw him, I felt that he could dive deep into my heart: and although his expression was anything but sensual, still, every time he looked at me, I felt all the blood within my veins set aglow”
― Oscar Wilde, Teleny or the Reverse of the Medal

“He sets the rifle down and we close the gap in between us in half a second. His arms around me, mine around him. Holding tight, as though we're trying to fuse ourselves together. It's familiar and lovely.”
― Erik J. Brown, The Only Light Left Burning

“when i sleep i remember days that never were. i dream a life i never saw and which i now see he never wanted...”
― Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

“Du bist kein Nichts. Du bist ein Sturm”
― Elya Adair, Melodie der Asche

“Heute, morgen und für immer.”
― Elya Adair, Melodie der Asche

“we know it ends in flame because those with power were never taught to relinquish / we wait for them to / we forget you can't give up what wasn't yours to begin with”
― Yaffa As, Blood Orange

“Kim was taking up an alarming amount of space in his mind. If he was thinking this much about a woman, he’d have no trouble finding a name for it”
― K.J. Charles, The Sugared Game

“[...]I was alive like them, real as they were: They could see it. I had proved it to them over and over again. But they chose to ignore it. They debated me, as if I were theoretical. I was a concept, not a person. And then, with their laws and their bans, they outcast me. An object.”
― Ray Nayler, The Mountain in the Sea

“Se conocieron como lo hacían los niños con intereses muy de nicho en los dos mil: en el chat de videojuegos que quemaban el ordenador y con la constante advertencia de sus padres de que no hablasen con extraños en internet.”
― Eli Macías, Entre amigos no se juega así

“I hope my readers feel inspired to embrace their LGBTQ+ loved ones even tighter and become
their champion, even if that loved one is themself—especially if that loved one is themself,”
― Randy Scobey, WHY: A Memoir

“To queer, as a verb, means to disrupt, to defy the binary.”
― Carlie Pendleton

“It’s not as simple as saying that ‘while the terminology is new, the experiences are not.’ The advent of new terminology can genuinely shift how we think about gender, as well as what names we give to our experiences. But it’s also not straightforwardly true to say that the word ‘trans’ has no history before sexology. Literary scholar Joseph Gamble has recently discovered that the 17th century writer Thomas Brown used the prefix ‘trans’ and the word ‘transition’ to refer to the spontaneous sex changes of hares as early as 1646 and even coined the adjective ‘transfeminated’ to refer to a body that has transformed from what we think of as ‘female’ to what we think of as ‘male.’ So the prefix ‘trans’ was clearly relevant to thinking about gender-malleability long before Hirschfeld leveraged it to refer to his patients he saw at his Institute for Sexual Science.”
― Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

“I have no doubt we shall win, but the road is long, and red with monstrous martyrdoms.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Oh! friend, my heart doth yearn for thee”
― Oscar Wilde, Teleny or the Reverse of the Medal

“When it's time to go onstage,
know that you're not ready but
this is not about being ready,
it's not even about being fierce,
or fearless, it's about being free.”
― Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo

“We're in a storybook. Our story. And what comes before the first chapter?
'A prologue,' I offer, and Grant's eyes pop like fireworks.
He offers me his hooked arm to take, the fresh leather of his jacket whining as it bends. 'Micah Summers, would you like to go on a prologue with me?”
― Adam Sass, The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers

“We're in a storybook. Our story. And what comes before the first chapter?
'A prologue,' I offer, and Grant's eyes pop like fireworks.
He offers me his hooked arm to take, the fresh leather of his jacket whining as it bends. 'Micah Summers, would you like to go on a prologue with me?'
Our first prologue.”
― Adam Sass, The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers

“«Mostrare le sue playlist a uno sconosciuto era la cosa più intima che potesse fare, molto più di chiedergli di spogliarsi davanti a lui. Le tracce che aveva salvato erano la testimonianza dei momenti vissuti e di quelli ancora da scoprire. Ogni canzone parlava di lui, di chi era e di ciò che avrebbe voluto essere.»”
― Jessica Lascar, Love is a mess

“Todos os gays que conheço já eram gays ainda jovens, ninguém vira gay somente porque diz que está okay ser gay.”
― Jorge Guerra Pires, Ciência para não cientistas: como ser mais racional em um mundo cada vez mais irracional, vol. 1 (Bolsonarismo) (Inteligência Artificial, Democracia, e Pensamento Crítico)

“She ran the back of her fingers across her chin, up the side of her face. A coy, seductive move wasted on me.”
― Richard Amos, Night Tricks

“AND THOSE WHO WERE SEEN DANCING WERE THOUGHT TO BE INSANE BY THOSE WHO COULD NOT HEAR THE MUSIC' *

*Nietzsche”
― Tom F. Klein, Neon Love: A Bangkok Tale of Fate and Desire

“For as David explains, when seven-year-old Brenda daydreamed of an ideal future, she saw herself as a twenty-one-year-old male with a mustache, a sports car, and surrounded by admiring friends. "He was someone I wanted to be," David says today, reflecting on those childhood fantasies”
― John Colapinto, As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl

“I was gay bashed in Montreal when I was a kid by a group of grown men. That was terrifying." They'd grown silent.and, there was just the crackling and muttering of the fire in the background as Olivier spoke.

"They hit me with sticks. It's funny, but when I think back that's the most painful part. Not the scrapes & bruises but before they hit me they kind of poked, ya know?"

He jabbed with one arm to mimick their movements. "It was as though I wasn't human."

"That's the necessary first step!" Said Myrna. "They dehumanize their victim. You've put it well" she spoke from experience.

Before coming to Three Pines, she'd been a psychologist in Monteal. And, being black, she knew that singular expression when people saw her as furniture.”
― Louise Penny, Chief Inspector Gamache: Still Life / A Fatal Grace / The Cruellest Month / A Rule Against Murder / The Brutal Telling

“I was gay bashed in Montreal when I was a kid by a group of grown men. That was terrifying." They'd grown silent.and, there was just the crackling and muttering of the fire in the background as Olivier spoke.

"They hit me with sticks. It's funny, but when I think back that's the most painful part. Not the scrapes & bruises but before they hit me they kind of poked, ya know?"

He jabbed with one arm to mimick their movements. "It was as though I wasn't human."

"That's the necessary first step!" Said Myrna. "They dehumanize their victim. You've put it well" she spoke from experience.

Before coming to Three Pines, she'd been a psychologist in Monteal. And, being black, she knew that singular expression when people saw her as furniture.”
― Louise Penny, Still Life

“L'anima gemella non esiste. E forse è anche peggio. Se l'anima gemella esistesse, allora potresti incolpare il destino nel caso in cui le cose non funzionassero. Nel nostro caso, invece, possiamo solo dare la colpa alle scelte che abbiamo fatto. Perché io ho scelto lui e lui ha scelto me.”
― Jessica Lascar, Love is a mess

“I'm asking if you can go toe-to-toe with Evelyn Hugo (pg. 7)”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Evelyn always has you hoping you'll get just a bit more. And she always denies you (pg. 16)”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“If the girls weren't here, I'd wrap my arms around him. If the girls weren't here, I'd tell him that there's not a single horrible thing about him. That he is calmer and kinder than anyone I've ever met. That he has taken the best traits I associate with each gender and made a cocktail of them all. The deepest parts of chivalry. The oldest kind of beauty”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, All Our Hidden Gifts

“If the girls weren't here, I'd wrap my arms around him. If the girls weren't here, I'd tell him that there's not a single horrible thing about him. That he is calmer and kinder than anyone I've ever met. That he has taken the best traits I associate with each gender and made a cocktail of them all. The deepest parts of chivalry. The oldest kind of beauty.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Gifts That Bind Us