Lgbtqia Characters Quotes

“I’m not gay,” said Raphael. “I’m not straight. I’m not interested.” “Your sexuality is ‘not interested’?” Alec asked curiously. Raphael said, “That’s right.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Red Scrolls of Magic

“I fell like a star and she was the end of the world. A cataclysmic crash of two people. Never to be the same. Never getting back up. Not unless we were doing it together.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“Alec, with his heartbreaking contradictions, shy and brave, relentless and tender. Alec’s midnight-blue eyes, and the look on his face when they had their first kiss. And their last.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Red Scrolls of Magic

“I love the story of a thing. I love a thing for what it means a thousand times more than for what it's worth.”
― Elizabeth Wein, The Pearl Thief

“The only time she's come close to being "known" was when she accidentally came out as bisexual during sophomore English class while talking about her favorite poem.”
― C.B. Lee, Not Your Sidekick

“I don't like kissing."

"I suppose it is a matter of taste."[...]"I wondered, did anyone ever," shrug, "you know, hurt you so you don't like kissing? love?"

"Nope."[...]

"I thought maybe someone had been bad to you in the past, and that was why you don't like people touching or holding you."

"Ah damn it to hell," she bangs the lamp down on the desk and the flame jumps wildly.
"I said no. I haven't been raped or jilted or abused in any fashion. There is nothing in my background to explain the way I am." She steadies her voice, taking the impatience out of it. "I'm the odd one out, the peculiarity in my family, because they are all normal and demonstrative physically. But ever since I can remember, I've disliked close contact...charge contact, emotional contact, as well as any overtly sexual contact. I veer away from it, because it always feels like the other person is draining something out of me. I know that's irrational, but that's the way I feel."

She touches the lamp and the flaring light stills.

"I spent a considerable amount of time when I was, o, adolescent, wondering why I was different, whether there were other people like me. Why, when everyone else was facinated by their developing sexual nature, I couldn't give a damn. I've never been attracted to men. Or women. Or anything else. It's difficult to explain, and nobody has ever believed it when I have tried to explain, but while I have an apparently normal female body, I don't have any sexual urge or appetite. I think I am a neuter.”
― Keri Hulme, The Bone People

“Her own hair was a glory of copper fire that morning, shining like a whisky still, long and loose in gentle flames down her back.”
― Elizabeth Wein, The Pearl Thief

“Yeah but he's my- Ruben”
― Cale Dietrich, If This Gets Out

“She looks great in that skirt. Her butt is so cute.”
― C.B. Lee, Not Your Sidekick

“Those names, Ari and Sol - what is it about Jewish trans men that we all have to reach back to our roots, as if they are the only source of nourishment we have left?”
― Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

“Now the truth is, I felt rather unaccountably to the beautiful stranger. I did feel, as she said, “drawn towards her,” but there was also something of repulsion. In this ambiguous feeling, however, the sense of attraction immensely prevailed. She interested and won me; she was so beautiful and so indescribably engaging.”
― J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmila

“Just because we screwed up doesn’t mean we’re screwed.”
― Annabel den Dekker, Ailene

“You don’t have to be strong or powerful. Anyone can stand up for what is right and help other people, show them some kindness. That’s what makes someone a true hero.”
― Annabel den Dekker

“If we have to fight for anything . . . then we should fight for peace, freedom, and love.”
― Annabel den Dekker, Ailene

“That’s just how my brain works: words of wisdom are produced at random intervals, and always in times of great despair.”
― Annabel den Dekker, Ailene

“Every single day, he had been afraid of losing everyone he loved, but the one thing he’d never been afraid of was dying himself.”
― Annabel den Dekker, Ailene

“My first love was fire. As a child, I would spend hours watching the flames of a candle flicker, dancing around like a passionate ballerina, desperate to use its career to gain social status. I often studied its movements, as if there was a pattern that could tell a story.”
― Caramia Sami, Heart of Arson: The Phoenix Queen

“I can't just wish for the future; I have to take risks to create it”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“Now the truth is, I felt rather unaccountably to the beautiful stranger. I did feel, as she said, “drawn towards her,” but there was also something of repulsion. In this ambiguous feeling, however, the sense of attraction immensely prevailed. She interested and won me; she was so beautiful and so indescribably engaging.”
― Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“No one has a smile like this. Like there's nobody else he'd rather be looking at. As if my whole being is a gift to him.”
― Addison Beck, One Manic Lie

“Rowan–I mean–is that truly your name?"

"Yes. It is now." It was her true name. She wanted him always to call her Rowan.”
― Nancy Springer, Rowan Hood: Outlaw Girl of Sherwood Forest

“Watching them pleased young eyes. I loved their complexions and freckles, the fullness and weight of their hair and its different colors—its flow when quick hands pushed it off their foreheads, or fingers combed it effortlessly—their eyes whose colors were hypnotic, and the freshness of their shirts or suits even at the end of long days.”
― John Steven Welch, The One Who's Gonna See You Through

“Sometimes love isn't enough”
― Anbara Salam, Belladonna

“Qual o problema de falar gay? Ele era gay, porra. Não uma coisa.”
― João Pedro Boesing, Entre Noites e Um Milhão de Estrelas

“She was a wild stallion that couldn't be tamed, a feline prowess that pulled you in the minute you pay attention to her presence. Her aura and essence were so seductive. Everything around her was filtered and tailored to her liking, which was disturbing, to the handful of people that really knew how she was like. The handful of people that knew her knew that none of it was real.”
― Emir Darlov, London Heights & Angelo: A play by Emir Darlov

“She is him, and he is me. I am the one that got away. The one who's heartbreak led to hundreds of other hearts breaking. I am happily healed, loved, appreciated, protected, disciplined, and beautifully crafted by the Universe.”
― Emir Darlov, London Heights & Angelo: A play by Emir Darlov

“It was as if he was doing it on purpose...
Hiding his beauty away from the world”
― Emir Darlov, It's Just The Two Of Us Now: A play by Emir Darlov

“Did you know that some people think that just putting books with queer characters into schools will make kids queer? If being a boy or a girl is so built into us at birth — if it’s not something we learn from everyone around us — then what are a few books going to do to change that? I don’t think you can make anyone into anything unless the pieces were there to start with.”
― Jess Callans, Ollie In Between

“Quit hockey, Ollie. Grow up, Ollie. Abandon your interests, Ollie. Start painting your face and wearing a bra and caring about things you don't care about, Ollie. People will like you better if you aren't you at all.

Just be yourself, my butt.”
― Jess Callans, Ollie In Between

“If you never see yourself in the world, how are you supposed to think you can exist? Maybe most people see themselves everywhere. In every book they’re made to tear apart in English class, in every hit TV series or movie. Lucky them.”
― Jess Callans, Ollie In Between