☆Pelumi☆ > ☆Pelumi☆'s Quotes

“Why is straight the default? Everyone should have to declare one way or another, and it shouldn't be this big awkward thing whether you're straight, gay, bi, or whatever. I'm just saying.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“Let them taste the terror they make us swallow.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“A parent never apologises, even if he regrets his actions. It is the child who should apologise.”
― Chika Unigwe, Night Dancer

“If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I'd cross every line for him.
I'm in love with him.
And he likes this better than fighting.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“The only reason you say that race was not an issue is because you wish it was not. We all wish it was not. But it’s a lie. I came from a country where race was not an issue; I did not think of myself as black and I only became black when I came to America. When you are black in America and you fall in love with a white person, race doesn’t matter when you’re alone together because it’s just you and your love. But the minute you step outside, race matters. But we don’t talk about it. We don’t even tell our white partners the small things that piss us off and the things we wish they understood better, because we’re worried they will say we’re overreacting, or we’re being too sensitive. And we don’t want them to say, Look how far we’ve come, just forty years ago it would have been illegal for us to even be a couple blah blah blah, because you know what we’re thinking when they say that? We’re thinking why the fuck should it ever have been illegal anyway? But we don’t say any of this stuff. We let it pile up inside our heads and when we come to nice liberal dinners like this, we say that race doesn’t matter because that’s what we’re supposed to say, to keep our nice liberal friends comfortable. It’s true. I speak from experience.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“I’m not flaunting anything. I’m just existing. This is me. I can’t hide myself. I can’t disappear. And even if I could, I don’t fucking want to. I have the same right to be here. I have the same right to exist.”
― Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

“I love dosney meocwiw.”
― Dorian Haviliard♕

“War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who remains.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“Yet the world is a mystery and I am a detective. I have to discover the truth and solve it. It is one which takes life to solve and when you solve it, it’s the greatest gift of all.”
― Potterhead Aanya, Letter to the World from a Naive Mind

“I didn't tell him, I never told him. Not in a way that he believed. Not in a way that he could let in and hold on to. Everything he was to me. That he was everything.
Simon, Simon . . .
You were the sun, and I was crashing into you.
I'd wake up every morning and tell myself . . .
I'd tell myself . . .
"You live in fear! In denial!"
Simon is on the ground. His wing is bent the wrong way. His blood is red and abundant. It smells like brown butter. His hair is a mess, his face is in the sand. He doesn't know how much I love him. He's never really heard it.
I'd wake up every morning and tell myself . . .
"Simon . . . love . . . get up. We still have to save Agatha."
Simon is on the ground.
This will end in flames.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Wayward Son

“Who's "Ma'am"? I'd wanted to ask at first. Ma'am sounded to me like an older woman with a proper purse, good posture, and sensible shoes who was maybe sitting somewhere nearby.
But I was Ma'am. Ma'am was me.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“I mean, if that ship were a person, I would fuck that ship,” said Baji.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

“Would you kiss me?"

"...yeah”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume One

“Understand this if you understand nothing: it is a powerful thing to be seen”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

“Hello.
I hope somebody is listening.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“It's dope to be black until it's hard to be black.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give