Lgbtq Characters Quotes

“Yes,” Magnus said. “About that. I deeply appreciate you saving my life. I’m very attached to my life. However, if it comes to a choice between your life and mine, Alec, remember I have already lived a very long time.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Red Scrolls of Magic

“Magnus said, in a low voice, “And what’s that one?” Alec answered, “Stamina.” Magnus stared. “Are you serious?” Alec began to grin. “Yeah.” “Really, though,” Magnus said. “I want to be clear on this. You’re not just saying that to be sexy?” “No,” Alec answered, his voice husky, and swallowed. “But I’m glad if it is.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Red Scrolls of Magic

“Respectable Shadowhunters are not supposed to bring my sort home to meet Mom and Dad. I have a past. I have several pasts. Besides, good Shadowhunter boys aren’t meant to bring home boyfriends at all.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Red Scrolls of Magic

“Alec kissed as he did all things, so dedicated and wholehearted he swept Magnus away.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Red Scrolls of Magic

“Just lately I have been happier than I ever had the right to expect, and as one goes around the world one sees that happiness is hard to come by and seldom lasts for long.”
― Mary Renault, The Charioteer

“Laurie stood casting his long shadow on the room behind him, silent in a grief and wonder too deep for tears, that life was so divided and irreconcilable, and the good so implacably the enemy of the best.”
― Mary Renault, The Charioteer

“She will write and write. She will finish this book, then write another. She will remain sane and she will live as she was meant to live, richly and deeply, among others of her kind, in full possession and command of her gifts.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“Evil Tinkerbell has come to kill me because I didn't clap. I'm a bad person and I deserve to die.”
― Derek Milman, Swipe Right for Murder

“Can't expect to shut up a sunbeam in a box and not have it dim a little. Hm?”
― Persephone Black, Captive of the Crime Queen

“You’re not the boss of me,” I say peevishly, and he grins suddenly. “No one is the boss of you, Milo. You’re gloriously intractable.”
― Lily Morton, Milo

“I now know something about myself which I have been suspecting for years, if I had had the honesty to admit it. I ought to be frightened and ashamed, but I am not.”
― Mary Renault, The Charioteer

“I looked on up to her eyes and held there steady, thinking pretty soon she’d look away, and then when I knew she wouldn’t the silver thread our eyes were joined by began to hum like far-off bees. I felt my soul melt and flow out along it. I felt my heart melt and drip off my fingertips.”
― Isabel Miller, Patience & Sarah

“Ogni amore merita di essere raccontato.”
― Elisa Fumis, Sarang: Il coraggio di amare

“If only I had known those trusted moments would be so few, I would have given voice to my unspoken promises, and shouted my unintended secrets to the sky. That my love for you extended far beyond our bed, and our island. That from the first time you told me you loved me and I let myself believe it, I was no longer shipwrecked on an island. I was where I was meant to be. With you.”
― Kae So Bu, The Gardens of Yes and No

“Shea’s laugh is quick and sharp like ice, and she thinks Caen is about to speak but she cuts him off, “She’s real now, and she’s so difficult to explain. She saved Aster today. Even though her own life is on the line and I don’t think she thought about it. I came in knowing what I was doing and now…How can something be right and hurt so damn much? Because I wonder. I wonder, if she’d been someone different or if I had? I wonder now. I didn’t use to.”
― Sophia Menesini, The Veiled Threat

“Some stars aren't meant to be followed," he said, slow and deliberate. "And if we are to dig deeper into the meaning of these signs, I truly believe we may find ourselves on a journey we're not prepared to confront.”
― Kale Lawrence, The Magi Menagerie

“Jonas had pleaded guilty to several minor offences, but he knew those offences paled in comparison to what the Council really held over his head: his former relationship with someone he truly loved. As if love could ever be a reason for reprimand.”
― Kale Lawrence, The Magi Menagerie

“I came with you to Ireland because I could not bear the thought of my story without you in it.”
― Kale Lawrence, The Magi Menagerie

“I wanted to remember what you felt like,’ Kai’s words from earlier that day sank in his mind and rippled in his body, like a rock thrown on a deep lake, stirring up the waters that had remained calm right until that moment. Ren had never forgotten what his past lover felt like. Kai was a breath of fresh air, nourishing the fire within, making Ren burn bright… but Ren had always feared losing control. He feared becoming a flame too big, too dangerous and frightening that could burn Kai to the bone.
That was why he had promised himself to keep away from his heart.”
― Myosotis, Potions and Arsons

“I may doubt the truths of the world, but never again will I doubt whether or not the person that I am, or may be, is loved or worthy of love. I know myself, and I don't. Both can be true.”
― Racquel Marie, Ophelia After All

“Did you know that some people think that just putting books with queer characters into schools will make kids queer? If being a boy or a girl is so built into us at birth -- if it's not something we learn from everyone around us -- then what are a few books going to do to change that? I don't think you can make anyone into anything unless”
― Jess Callans, Ollie In Between