“If you do bad things for reasons you’ve been told are good, does it make you a bad person?” - The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
afieldofheather : >> “No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into >> account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will >> be…...
“We never really talked much or even looked at each other, but it didn’t matter because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe even more intimate than eye contact anyway. I ...
“I think the wrong side is winning in the battle that’s going on inside of you. It’s killing all that’s beautiful about you.” - The Value of Rain by Brandon Shire
“I don’t even know. I’m just so sick of straight people who can’t get their shit together.” - Simon vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
“If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue...
“You could say sorry,“ suggested Harry bluntly. "What, and get attacked by another flock of canaries?” muttered Ron. “What did you have to imitate her for?” “She laughed at my mus...
“Maybe they’ll just take her someplace else, like an island, with the other people on it who are like her. People who don’t fit in, but not criminal elements. Surely that’s what they’ll...
“The worst part of being truly alone is you think about all the times you wished that everyone would just leave you be. Then they do, and you are left being, and you turn out to be terrible com...
“I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a sentence that caught my eye.” - The Shadow of the Wind...
“It is definitely annoying that straight (and white, for that matter) is the default, and that the only people who have to think about their identity are the ones who don’t fit that mold. Str...
“We’ll be there, Harry,“ said Ron "What?” “At your Aunt and Uncle’s house,” said Ron, “And then we’ll go with you wherever you’re going.” “No-” said Harry quickly; he...
“Isn’t it better to do something because you’ve decided to? Rather than because you have to?” “No, it isn’t,” says Charmaine. “Love isn’t like that. With love, you can’t stop ...
“One of the challenges with pain–physical or psychic–is that we can really only approach it through metaphor. It can’t be represented the way table or a body can. In some ways, pain is th...
“He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people… I got the feeling that Julián was living in the past, locked in...
“I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick.” - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
“Was there a time when I had loved this woman? There must have been. How else would my passion have slipped so far to the other side of love?” - The Value of Rain by Brandon Shire
“As a side note, don’t you think everyone should have to come out? Why is straight the default? Everyone should have to declare one way or another, and it should be this big awkward thing whe...
“Like, the world is billions of years old, and life is a product of nucleotide mutation and everything. But the world is also the stories we tell about it.” - Turtles All the Way Down by Jo...
“She’s so beautiful she glows in the dark.” - The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood