988 Quotes About Lgbt

A slow nature such as Maurice's appears insensitive, for it needs time even to feel. Its instinct is to assume that nothing either for good or evil has happened, and to resist the invader. Once gripped, it feels acutely, and its sensations in love are particularly profound. Given time, it can know and impart ecstasy; given time, it can sink to the heart of Hell.

There may be no harder place to be queer than high school, a place of bullies and slurs, a place steeped in rituals of heterosexuality.

I'm sure lots of schools have students who are able to form bonds of friendship across sexual identity stereotypes... even in Iowa

They say that it’s always darkest before the dawn, but sometimes it’s really darkest the moment you realize a dream was just a dream.

There was nothing funny about the situation, but I laughed anyway. I'd done the same thing during Grandpa Andy's funeral. Busted out laughing right during Father Diaz's opening prayer. I apologized to Gamma Evelyn afterward, and she told me it was okay. That life was ridiculous and absurd, and sometimes the only way to keep it from overwhelming us was to laugh right in its face.

You can't kill how you're born

Malone had been raised by a lady both Irish and Catholic, in a good bourgeois home in which careless table manners were a sin, much less this storm in his heart.

«Εγώ πήρα πολλά από τον δικό μου πόλεμο, πάρε κι εσύ άλλα τόσα από τον δικό σου. Η ζωή δεν παραδίδεται, όσο δυνατά κι αν την καλέσεις, δεν πρόκεται να παραδοθεί. Κανένας δεν είναι σπουδαίος ή ασήμαντος, παρά μόνο στη σκέψη κάποιου άλλου, γι' αυτό πρέπει να προσέχεις σε ποιανού τη σκέψη μπαίνεις και να θυμάσαι τη Λαίδη Μακμπεθ που κρατούσε τη σκέψη της στο χέρι, αν και δεν γίνεται να είμαστε όλοι τόσο ασφαλείς» (σ. 200)

He didn't understand why Graeme wasn't a boy, but he recognized that he didn't need to understand a thing for it to be true.