Aromantic Quotes

“Give your friendships the magic you would give a romance. Because they're just as important. Actually, for us, they're way more important.”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“You know why people pair up into couples? Because being a human is fucking terrifying. But it's a hell of a lot easier if you're not doing it by yourself.”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“She's happy with who she is. Maybe it's not the heteronormative dream that she grew up wishing for, but... knowing who you are and loving yourself is so much better than that, I think.”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“The crux of it all was that I did not feel sexual or romantic feelings for anyone. Not a single goddamn person I had ever met or would ever meet.
So that really was me.
Aromatic.
Asexual.”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“Nowhere is it written in stone that you must love in only one way, only one person, only one time. You haven't missed your shot at love, because love isn't just one thing.”
― Rosiee Thor, Fire Becomes Her

“People who don't experience love are no less valid. You fear them simply because they are immune to powers that to the common person, are irresistible, and you fear the lack of power you have over them, for if love cannot stop them, what will? You do not hurt them because they are cold hearted and immoral, you hurt them because they have the potential to be and you are afraid of what they could do once they are.”
― Cassandrius

“Those who tied love to sex, or even love to romance, didn’t own the emotion itself.”
― A.M. Strickland, Beyond the Black Door

“Romance is supposed to be great, and not being able to like anyone isn't normal, because any regular person would definitely-"
"But you feel like you don't get it. Then why should you have to do it? Why would you force yourself to do something that doesn't feel natural?”
― Uta Isaki, Is Love the Answer?

“Nobody talks about breaking up with your friends. It sucks. Especially when that friend ditches you to be with whoever they think is The One.”
― Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

“back in my mid-twenties, a friend getting into a relationship could be enough to send me into a spiral of depression and anxiety, simultaneously worried I'd lose the friend and reminded that (as I thought then) I'd be forever alone.”
― Eris Young, Ace Voices: What it Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace

“Like that club from earlier. Some people appreciate that vibe and some don't. If they force people to join when they don't want to, that's harassment.

It's the same with romance.”
― Uta Isaki, Is Love the Answer?

“Why have I let the world convince me I’m not enough without romance?”
― Alison Cochrun, The Charm Offensive

“It would be so much easier if I had someone to just tell me what to do and who to be with and how to act and what love actually was”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“I didn't know how to know”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“being a kid who knew all about sexuality from the internet but couldn't even vaguely work out what I was”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“Without having even figured out who I was and what I wanted”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“Liking girls when you were a girl was hard. But it was beautiful too. so fucking beautiful.”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“Why do things have to be so complicated”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“And still, it's hard to find people like me. The asexual community is small enough as it is; there are fewer aromantic people and even fewer people who are both.”
― Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

“And that really made me think for the first time about how this could happen with any friend who's not also aroace. Like, my person, my closest confidant, will probably always have someone else - a romantic partner - that they're closer to.”
― Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

“Because I wouldn't lie to you,' she said. 'If I ever want anyone, I'll tell you. As it happens, I've never felt like wanting anyone up to date.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Julius

“I am the trees and the flowers you step on. Iam the earth you walk on, the water you drink, the animals you kill. I am the mountains and the never-ending sea. I am here and everywhere else, now and forever. I am Everything.”
― Dr. Watson, When the Spring Comes

“I don't need another person to heal my heart. I don't need a partner... at least, not until and unless I'm ready on my own terms. I don't need to be forced-shipped with anyone or wear anybody else's label. For the first time in a long time, I feel like a weight has been lifted from my shoulders.”
― Rick Riordan, The Tyrant’s Tomb

“Even the Crackling Sea Eyrie's reeve, whose consort and interests were exclusively male, had felt the pressure to father a small flock of children. She understood that pressure. She'd never been attracted to another opinicus - the power dynamic complicated issues further - but she'd found time to lay seven eggs.”
― K. Vale Nagle, Eyrie

“Assexual.
Arromântica.
Eu voltei para as palavras até elas parecerem reais na minha cabeça, no mínimo. Talvez elas não fossem reais na cabeça da maioria das pessoas, mas eu poderia fazer com que fossem reais para mim. Eu podia fazer a porra que eu bem entendesse.”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“How come everyone else could function and I couldn't? How could everyone live properly yet I had some sort of error in my programming?”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“I still couldn’t quite imagine a scenario in which I would fall for someone, but I was going to make it happen, and I was going to enjoy it”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“She’d told him she was asexual at the end of ninth grade—and when he told her he thought he’d never find a boyfriend, she’d told him she was also aromantic and had no desire to date. Early in their freshman year, she’d gone on dates with Jade Miller and Keenan Price just to be nice, but she told them after one date that she didn’t feel a connection.”
― Kenneth Creech, Fate, Coincidence, and Other Curse Words

“I am just going to be human differently.”
― Angela Chen

“May we move toward an understanding of ace- and aro-spectrum queerness itself as an avowal of the right to exist as enigma, as refusal—to persist in illegibility, to be unknown and unknowable.”
― Sherronda J. Brown, Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture