“ Lord knows why I find you attractive, Michael, when you generally smell like weed and broken hobo dreams. S.J. Goslee
“ Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate. DaShanne Stokes
“ They should love you, just as you are. Parents should love their kids, right?" "You'd think so. N.R. Walker
“ I believe that 'love' and 'wrong' are two deeply unrelated words that should never be thrown into the same sentence together. Like 'dessert' and 'broccoli. Cat Winters
“ I think you've got to get out whatever's hurting you through your art, so it doesn't twist you up inside. Cheryl Rainfield
“ 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… André Aciman
“ By claiming that our words are too hard to understand, the media perpetuates the idea that WE are too hard to understand, and suggests that there’s no point in trying. C. N. Lester
“ No person, no matter how important society deems their relationship to you, has the right to denounce you for who you are. Tyler Oakley
“ Some critics of trans people have told us that we shouldn’t feel this pain of being denied the legitimacy of our own selves; gender is, of course, just a social construct. I wonder if these people als… C. N. Lester
“ If we start preemptively cutting out parts of who we are because they’re ‘not feminist enough’, then we’ve failed before we’ve begun. C. N. Lester
“ People are complicated. And messy. Seems too convenient that we’d all fit inside some multiple-choice question. Riley Cavanaugh
“ It is not often that I have two options to choose from. It is nice to be compelled towards something, otherwise one drifts through life unimpeded.Bhanggi Faiqa Mansab
“ I was an utterance in absentia. I was a forgotten word, uttered and mislaid long ago. I was the word that existed because there was another word that was my opposite, and without it I was nothing. I g… Faiqa Mansab
“ When I opened the door, Andrew was standing there like a remedy for heart palpitations. Or maybe he made them worse. It was hard to tell. N.R. Walker
“ I think he won a tiny piece of my heart that day. If he didn't have the whole damn thing before then, he certainly had part of it now. N.R. Walker
“ My last thought before falling asleep last night was a realisation that I was falling in love with Andrew. Well, not me exactly. My stupid, traitorous heart. N.R. Walker
“ And without my consent, with my defences in ruins, while my brain was sleeping, my stupid heart went and fell headfirst into love. N.R. Walker
“ We assume that anything that is new to us is new to human society as a whole, and that if we don’t see it reflected in history textbooks and in recent memory then it cannot have existed for long. C. N. Lester
