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“No Gods Or Kings. Only Man. -Andrew Ryan”
― John Shirley, BioShock: Rapture

“If the modern world were a patient in my care... I would diagnose it suicidal." - Dr. Sofia Lamb”
― John Shirley, BioShock: Rapture

“A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend.”
― John Shirley, BioShock: Rapture

“Humans are beings that seek support of others through hard times. Even if y'all ain't together, all you have to do is remember the face of the person who shares your feelings and believes in you. Just having that presence in your life can really save you.”
― Yuki Fumino, I Hear the Sunspot: Limit, Volume 3

“Living with a disability is an exercise in learning to cope with loneliness.”
― Yuki Fumino, I Hear the Sunspot, Vol. 4: Limit, Volume 2

“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
― Jess C. Scott, The Intern

“It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.”
― Robert Cormier, Heroes

“I mean, I WANT to be in love. That’s something I’ve always wanted to feel. What’s it like, to be in love and have that other person love you, too? Is it another level of friendship? Another level of trust, vulnerability, always telling that person your thoughts and feelings, sharing every little thing with them so that you’re so in sync that it’s like you’re one person? Is it like every time you see them, your heart goes wild, and you can’t think because you’re so effing happy? Is it like whenever they’re away, you feel like you’re missing a piece of yourself? Does knowing someone loves you fill you with confidence, because you know you’re the type of person who deserves love? And what’s it like to break up with someone you love? What’s it like to decide to try again, and let yourself fall in love with someone else? To decide to take that chance you might get hurt, but still want to try? I don’t know. But I want to.”
― Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

“I see at least one thing a day that makes me wonder if the straight people are all right.”
― Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

“It could've been easy to say I was hurt because I'm trans, because someone singled me out for my identity, but there's something weird about that - something off, about suggesting that my identity is the thing that brought me any sort of pain. It's the opposite. Being trans brings me love. It brings me happiness. It gives me power.”
― Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

“For trans and nonbinary youth: You're beautiful. You're important. You're valid. You're perfect.”
― Kacen Callender⁣, Felix Ever After

“What you take from the earth, you must give back. That's nature's way.”
― Chris d'Lacey, The Fire Within

“Readers have the right to say whatever the fuck they want about a book. Period. They have that right. If they hate the book because the MC says the word “delicious” and the reader believes it’s the Devil’s word and only evil people use it, they can shout from the rooftops “This book is shit and don’t read it” if they want. If they want to write a review entirely about how much they hate the cover, they can if they want. If they want to make their review all about how their dog Foot Foot especially loved to pee on that particular book, they can."

[Blog entry, January 9, 2012]”
― Stacia Kane

“Nobody owes their story to the world. But maybe it's not about owing your story. Maybe it's about wanting other people to know.”
― Brian D. Kennedy, A Little Bit Country

“He totally wears his heart on his sleeve.”
― Okura, I Think Our Son Is Gay, Vol. 1

“It's not good to ruin your body even if it's for something you love!”
― Okura, I Think Our Son Is Gay, Vol. 1

“The tree of which we are branches on, makes choices yesterday, by the choices we make today.”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“There is no one way to be transgender, just like there is no one way to be cisgender. We are all just trying to find a place to call our own. We are all deserving of comfort and safety, a place to call home.”
― Theo Parish, Homebody: A Graphic Memoir of Gender Identity Exploration

“For the first time, I felt like I really saw my own reflection.”
― Theo Parish, Homebody: A Graphic Memoir of Gender Identity Exploration

“These assumptions about who I was and what that meant I should look like just didn't feel right. The feelings of discomfort stopped me from going to the hairdresser altogether and I cut my hair at home.”
― Theo Parish, Homebody: A Graphic Memoir of Gender Identity Exploration

“Living as I do with human beings, the more that I observe them, the more I am forced to conclude that they are selfish.”
― Natsume Sōseki, I Am a Cat

“...you don't really become a finer person just by reading lots of books.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro

“How do you know when an apology is true—when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment?”
― Beth Kephart, Undercover

“Most human beings get issued a gender when they're born and they're supposed to stick with that. So they'll grow up living their entire life experiencing only half of what it is to be a human being.”
― Emma Goswell, Coming Out Stories - Personal Experiences of Coming Out from Across the LGBTQ+ Spectrum

“I think I came out to myself eventually in high school, but the church and organized religion definitely didn't help the situation.”
― Emma Goswell, Coming Out Stories - Personal Experiences of Coming Out from Across the LGBTQ+ Spectrum

“There wasn't any physical abuse but there was a lot of emotional abuse. It was a lot of shit to take.”
― Emma Goswell, Coming Out Stories - Personal Experiences of Coming Out from Across the LGBTQ+ Spectrum

“I think as much as you can, follow your heart and trust your gut instinct because that's going to help you gauge how you approach your family and your friends. Be realistic. Hope for the best, but at the same time understand that not everyone might be okay with you in the beginning or further along. But trust your gut and be true to yourself because that is what is going to get you through the good times and the bad.

And talk to the man in the mirror, or the woman in the mirror, or the whoever the fuck you want to be and are in the mirror!”
― Emma Goswell, Coming Out Stories - Personal Experiences of Coming Out from Across the LGBTQ+ Spectrum

“I just wanted to fit in.”
― Emma Goswell, Coming Out Stories - Personal Experiences of Coming Out from Across the LGBTQ+ Spectrum

“Only come out when you are good and ready.”
― Emma Goswell, Coming Out Stories - Personal Experiences of Coming Out from Across the LGBTQ+ Spectrum

“Every queer person born before 2010 had to be a self taught cultural archaeologist as a child, forced as we were to sift through compacted layers of heterocentric history to excavate even the tiniest glints of queer representation.”
― Komail Aijazuddin, Manboobs: A Memoir of Musicals, Visas, Hope, and Cake