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“Gay kids aren鈥檛 a 鈥減lot point鈥� that you can play with. Gay kids are real, actual kids, teenagers, growing up into awesome adults, and they don鈥檛 have the books they need to reflect that. Growing up, my nose was constantly stuck in a book. Growing up as a lesbian, I was told over and over and over by the lack of gayness in said books that I did not exist. That I wasn鈥檛 important enough to tell stories about. That I was invisible. Why are we telling our kids this? Why are we telling them that they鈥檙e a minority, and they don鈥檛 deserve the same rights as straights, that they鈥檙e going to grow up in a world that despises them, that the intolerance of humanity will never change, that they鈥檙e worthless. It鈥檚 not true.”
― Sarah Diemer

“Don't judge yourself by what others did to you.”
― C. Kennedy, 脱尘辞谤辫丑颈

“I am what I am Are you what you are or What?”
― Alanis Morissette

“I knew you read the Symposium in the vac," he said in a low voice.
Maurice felt uneasy.
"Then you understand - without me saying more - "
"How do you mean?"
Durham could not wait. People were all around them, but with eyes that had gone intensely blue he whispered, "I love you.”
― E. M. Forster, Maurice

“Freedom isn't just about voting and marrying and kissing on the street, although all of these things are important. Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“Abuse doesn't define you.”
― C. Kennedy, 脱尘辞谤辫丑颈

“There are tons of kids out there who endure chronic abuse and suffer in silence. They can鈥檛 trust anyone, they can鈥檛 tell anyone, and they have no idea how to get away from it.”
― C. Kennedy, 脱尘辞谤辫丑颈

“I wanted a settled life and a shocking one. Think of Van Gogh, cypress trees and church spires under a sky of writhing snakes. I was my father's daughter. I wanted to be loved by someone like my tough judicious mother and I wanted to run screaming through the headlights with a bottle in my hand. That was the family curse. We tended to nurse flocks of undisciplined wishes that collided and canceled each other out. The curse implied that if we didn't learn to train our desires in one direction or another we were likely to end up with nothing. Look at my father and mother today.

I married in my early twenties. When that went to pieces I loved a woman. At both of those times and at other times, too, I believed I had focused my impulses and embarked on a long victory over my own confusion. Now, in my late thirties, I knew less than ever about what I wanted. In place of youth's belief in change I had begun to feel a nervous embarrassment that ticked inside me like a clock. I'd never meant to get this far in such an unfastened condition. (p.142)”
― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

“I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me there, in some unguessable other place. His move from life to death might resemble my stepping into the kitchen - into its soft nowhere quality and foggy hum. I breathed the dark air. If I had at that moment a sense of calm kindly death while my heart beat and my lungs expanded, he might know a similar sense of life in the middle of his ongoing death.”
― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

“I鈥檓 not this unusual,鈥� she said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 just my hair.鈥�

She looked at Bobby and she looked at me, with an expression at once disdainful and imploring. She was forty, pregnant, and in love with two men at once. I think what she could not abide was the zaniness of her life. Like many of us, she had grown up expecting romance to bestow dignity and direction.

鈥淏e brave,鈥� I told her. Bobby and I stood before her, confused and homeless and lacking a plan, beset by an aching but chaotic love that refused to focus in the conventional way. Traffic roared behind us. A truck honked its hydraulic horn, a monstrous, oceanic sound. Clare shook her head, not in denial but in exasperation. Because she could think of nothing else to do, she began walking again, more slowly, toward the row of trees.”
― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

“If I were free, as a physician, to say what I pleased, I would tell every abused person I see that there is an entire world out there that is nothing like the one you鈥檙e living. Go discover it.”
― C. Kennedy, 脱尘辞谤辫丑颈

“I suppose at heart it was the haircut that did it; that exploded the ordinary order of things and showed me the possibilities that had been there all along, hidden among the patterns in the wallpaper. In a different age, we used to take acid for more or less the same reason.”
― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

“The thing about gay marriage is simply that it's not gay. It's marriage. If you are uncomfortable with marriage, you can not outlaw marriage. And, shocking, even if homosexuality makes someone uncomfortable, one can not outlaw identifying as or practicing homosexuality. So seeing as both homosexuality and marriage are legal, their being combined should be no big deal.”
― Cristina Marrero

“In Maurice I tried to create a character who was completely unlike myself or what I supposed myself to be: someone handsome, healthy, bodily attractive, mentally torpid, not a bad business man and rather a snob. Into this mixture I dropped an ingredient that puzzles him, wakes him up, torments him and finally saves him.”
― E. M. Forster

“Psychological and emotional wellness is an ongoing process for everyone.”
― C. Kennedy, 脱尘辞谤辫丑颈

“Like that breeder-woman sitting at the bar, who thinks it's a buzz to go into a gay joint and has no doubt heard somewhere that this is one. Her lurid get-up's a joke, ludicrous. She's the type who dons the camouflage-green combat trousers, wraps a bandanna around her head and paints herself with black lipstick, imagining all the lesbians in the joint'll have the hots for her. Not so much imagining as secretly hoping.

Naturally, no one goes and sits with her. She's been here before, and everyone gives the ice-cold shoulder, yet she still turns up again and again. Someone might argue we're zoo animals for her. But I've another theory. For her, we're noble savages, a kind of grey area outside the respectable, minutely organized community, an untamed wilderness it takes a lot of guts to step into. But if you do dare, there's a glorious smell of freedom floating around your trousers and giving the finger to society, making whoever an instant anarchist. Certainly, for her, coming here is like putting a washable tattoo on your shoulder : there's the thrill of deviance with none of the dull commitment - and she'll never have to wonder whether she's too weird to be seen out before dark.”
― Johanna Sinisalo, Troll: A Love Story

“Christy isn鈥檛 a case, he鈥檚 a person.”
― C. Kennedy, 脱尘辞谤辫丑颈

“I don鈥檛 mean to take the bow off the end of your rain, but you gotta be smart about your first boyfriend.”
― C. Kennedy, 脱尘辞谤辫丑颈

“Oh, hell. You're a fairy," I said.

"Yeah," he said. "You know, they call it 'being gay' nowadays, but sure, whatever.”
― Red Tash, Troll Or Derby

“A woman who might have been a good mother and a good grandmother, had not a quirk of nature put her in the wrong body many years ago....

What an ordeal, to have to conduct one's life in such deception, just to be able to live in peace with someone you love. Perhaps things will change on day, and people will be able to live the way they were created.”
― Viktor Arnar Ing贸lfsson, House of Evidence

“My father's attitude was that this was but an inevitable phase of my growing up and he affected to take it lightly. But beneath his jocular, boys-together air, he was at a loss, he was frightened. Perhaps he had supposed that my growing up would bring us closer together鈥� whereas, now that he was trying to find out something about me, I was in full flight from him. I did not want him to know me. I did not want anyone to know me. And then, again, I was undergoing with my father what the very young inevitably undergo with their elders: I was beginning to judge him. And the very harshness of this judgment, which broke my heart, revealed, though I could not have said it then, how much I had loved him, how that love, along with my innocence, was dying.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni鈥檚 Room

“You're born with the face God gave you. You wind up with the face you deserve.”
― Brad Graber, The Intersect

“The few minutes with Ezra had been the most intriguing I鈥檇 spent in the past six months, but if I remembered one thing about my hometown it was that sticking your nose into someone else鈥檚 family matters could get it blown off.

Figuratively.

Mostly.”
― Charli Coty, Speedbump

“You need to know where you鈥檝e come from to define where you want to go.”
― Z. Allora, The Craving

“Sometimes, there鈥檚 love and kindness. Not perfection, but comfort.”
― Jeff McKown, Solid Ground