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“I swear to love you always. To back you up even when you're wrong. To make you laugh when you realize you've built that IKEA bookshelf all backwards. To indulge every whim and passion. And to always be your number one fan. Until death do us part, I will stand by your side.”
― J.J. Arias, Guava Flavored Lies

“I didn't truly believe it back then. That I deserved to be seen. I do now, though. I do. And being seen requires being open about myself.
Joan looks at me, soft, patient.

I want to be seen.”
― Cynthia So, If You Still Recognise Me

“Sometimes, letting go and realizing that things will unfold as they should is the best thing you can do for yourself.”
― Erin Zak, The Hummingbird Sanctuary

“As long as oppression is present in the world, young people need pedagogy that nurtures criticality.”
― Gholdy Muhammad, Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy

“People see queerness as such an anomaly, as if there aren't that many of us. But what if we're actually the norm, and we're all just in hiding?”
― Lyla Lee, Flip the Script

“Sometimes just being yourself-really, truly yourself-can be the most difficult thing to be.”
― Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars

“There are many variables that have nothing to do with a person’s education, experience, or accomplishments that will significantly influence his or her standing for higher-level positions and opportunities for advancement.”
― Brenda Harrington, Access Denied: Addressing Workplace Disparities and Discrimination

“Remember, and feel free to remind white allies, that you don’t need permission from anyone to pursue self-care.

Invite them to spend less time policing POC behavior and more time investigating long-standing systems of oppression and their impact.”
― Dalia Kinsey, Decolonizing Wellness

“Welcome to life. Sometimes it's terrifying. Other times, transcendent. The trick is not to let the fear keep you from the joy.”
― Meghan O'Brien, Camp Rewind

“But it was "woman plus habitation," and she was a stranger. That is probably the truest and most gothic part; not because of war or because we'd only net with chaperones before marriage; rather because I didn't know her, not really, until I did. She was a stranger because something essential was shielded, released in tiny bursts until it became a flood-a flooded of what I realized I did not know. Afterward, I would mourn her as if she'd died, because something had: someone we had created together”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“Women could abuse other women. Women have abused other women. And queers needed to take this issue seriously, because no one else would.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“Maybe if people can get past the things that make me different on the outside, then they might try to get to know the real me. And maybe I’ll let them.”
― Jackie Khalilieh, Something More

“You are not capable of loving anything in this world if you do not love yourself first. For whoever you are. And if there is anything in this world that I know with a conviction, it is that you were made to love, to spread sunshine.”
― Tara Pammi, When Tara Met Farah

“Love is a strange thing. Sometimes it springs up where you least expect it. You can't control it. And I think you just have to act on it. Encourage it,”
― Shamim Sarif, I Can't Think Straight

“Nothing incites and feeds a passion better than a mutual resistance to attraction. And the longer that resistance plays out and the more insistent the denial, the more powerful that passion becomes. Until eventually, it can no longer be contained and the resistance, no matter how strong, falters, and that passion is finally released and, well, when it's released like that after being held in for so long...it makes for some seriously hot sex.”
― Ronica Black, Passion's Sweet Surrender

“A relationship comes with its own cost, but love is worth the price of admission. You don't get to set the price, but if you want to come aboard, you have to pay it.”
― Bel Blackwood, Free Flight

“Change had painted them both. Just with different brushes.”
― K.D. Williamson, Erasing the Lines

“There was no fear and no worry, but Nora knew she had come full circle. However, where she ended was so much better than where she'd started.”
― K.D. Williamson, Crossing Lines

“Sometimes it made sense to lead from behind, and other times you had to take the situation to hand.”
― Alyssa Cole, Once Ghosted, Twice Shy

“Without access to mentors and organization sponsors who can provide much-needed advice, coaching, and counsel, many of us are not prepared for the real game that is being played. It is as if we are trying to play soccer on a baseball diamond.”
― Brenda Harrington, Access Denied: Addressing Workplace Disparities and Discrimination

“I took a breath to soak it in and sensed a calmness I had not felt in a long time. I still had lingering guilt or something closer to regret, but it was somehow easier to breathe. It felt right.”
― Veronica Gutierrez, As You Look

“She felt Rain's body going slack in her arms and heard her, with a final deep vibrating sigh, say something in Lakota.

"What, darling?"

The warmth of Rain's presence and her steady breathing had almost lulled Bett to sleep when a low whisper translated for her. "You have won me.”
― Jaycie Morrison, Basic Training of the Heart

“No one has ever said that to me before, and I've certainly never said it to anyone...or imagined that I ever would. I thought love would make me weak. And I was right, because when you said it, you could have knocked me over with a feather. Christ, I'm rambling. What I'm trying to say is... I love you too.”
― Chencia C. Higgins, D'Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding

“Lian's eyes fluttered closed just before their lips touched, and when they did, Teresa felt like she was going to float away. Something unnamable settled in her with the first kiss. No matter what happened, kissing Lian couldn't be something she would regret.”
― Raquel De Leon, Knowing Her

“The price is high, and the price, it will change you. But the winner of life isn’t the one who gets through with the least number of scars.”
― Nicky Drayden, Escaping Exodus

“The love I feel for you is what exists in the hearts of two people when there is something between them that is unique. It's what makes them fit together like pieces of a puzzle. It's something that makes them want to be with each other, no matter what. Something that makes their time apart almost unbearable and then their time back together so much sweeter.”
― Jaycie Morrison, Heart's Orders

“Many black intellectuals spoke about the experience of racism mainly, and sometimes exclusively, from a black male perspective, highlighting the various ways their humanity had been degraded and denied. While this discussion was something I cared about deeply, it was rarely balanced with one about all the unique ways in which black women have suffered. Even the scholars who spoke about race without focusing so much on the particular experience of black men still failed to fully capture and dissect the compounded challenges black women faced as they dealt with racism and sexism. The result of discussions of race being unfairly tilted toward the male point of view is that the experiences of black women have taken a backseat to those of black men, although they've suffered in ways that black men haven't. Racism and sexism were stacked against them. And too often they've borne the brunt of the very masculinity that has been historically debased in black men when black men asserted their power over the only people they could - black women...The hard truth is that black men have contributed to these struggles both subtly and overtly...we contribute to the degradation of black women by glorifying the kind of common rap that reduces them to bitches, hoes, and body parts.”
― Zachary Wood, Uncensored

“The more you try to bury us, the firmer our roots. The more you try to silence us, the louder our song.”
― Phoenix Ning, Paragon Seven

“As I journey further into reconstructing my faith, I have determined that when anger motivates us to move toward liberation, to be more inclusive, to build wider tables, and to love our neihbours better, it is righteous and holy.”
― Robert G. Callahan II, Fire in the Whole: Embracing Our Righteous Anger with White Christianity and Reclaiming Our Wholeness

“The fries are oversalted making me drink more or maybe it’s one of the excuses I’ve learned to repeat to myself.”
― Trista Hurley-Waxali