Kj > Kj's Quotes

“He was lifted into a kind of exalted dream, part loyalty, part hero-worship, all romance. Half-remembered images moved in it, the tents of Troy, the columns of Athens, David waiting in an olive grove for the sound of Jonathan's bow.”
― Mary Renault, The Charioteer

“I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“[I] felt abject in my hiddenness, my shadow-life, and because I had spent so long just watching, never acting, I was terrified of exposing my desire. I thought it would be shocking, that it would tear right through the fabric of the world and everyone would see it and know me and everyone would know that I was not a harmless thing, an undesiring thing, but that I had a fire insurgent within me, a buried fire that had been stoked furiously for so long that it would rage through the world if for a moment I let it out.”
― Seán Hewitt, Open, Heaven

“Longing performs all things.”
― Mary Renault

“Meeting him feels like learning about a part of myself that I haven’t been allowed to understand until now.”
― K. Ancrum, Icarus

“Avery needs to think about this as it's happening. Avery needs to understand it in order to enjoy it.”
― David Levithan, Ryan and Avery

“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre