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“Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.”
― William Feather

“Considering differences broadens your knowledge and increases your value.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“I let it all fall away. My mission, my kingdom. The world. They exist somewhere other than in this moment, and now there is only this. Me, my ship, and a girl with oceans in her eyes.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

“There is nothing in this world but pain and the rare moments that exist in between.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

“Look at you,” he whispers. “My monster, come to find me.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

“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

“But, just because we loved each other, doesn't mean we were meant to be together.
And just because you loved one, doesn't mean you can't love another.”
― Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

“It's easier to accept hurt and pain, sometimes, than love and acceptance.”
― Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

“Even if a creator made a character to be straight, they put those characters out into the world, right? So those characters are mine now. And I say that Steve and Bucky are gay as hell.”
― 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

“No one else gets to define who I am. Only me.”
― Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

“It’s almost like I was looking for the pain and the hurt, because it was easier to live with the idea that, even though I want love, I’m not the kind of person who deserves to be loved.”
― Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

“It's easier, I think, to love someone you know won't love you - to chase them, knowing they won't feel the same way - than to love someone who might love you back. To risk loving each other and losing it all”
― Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

“I want to see what a new self-portrait would look like, after I've stood up for myself.”
― Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

“You’re not your grades. You’re not your test scores or your college application or even your portfolio.”
― Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

“Just because you don’t understand my identity, doesn’t mean I’m not real. That I don’t exist.”
― Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

“We're not courting trouble," I say. "Flirting with it, at most.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“The great tragic love story of Percy and me is neither great nor truly a love story, and is tragic only for its single-sidedness. It is also not an epic monolith that has plagued me since boyhood, as might be expected. Rather, it is simply the tale of how two people can be important to each other their whole lives, and then, one morning, quite without meaning to, one of them wakes to find that importance has been magnified into a sudden and intense desire to put his tongue in the other's mouth.
A long, slow slide, then a sudden impact.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“Ugh. Feelings.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“What’s the use of temptations if we don’t yield to them?”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“I have lived most of my life as a devotee of the philosophy that a man should not see two sevens in one day,”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“I've always been of the mind that subtlety is a waste of time. Fortune favors the flirtatious.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“If the Good Lord didn't want men to play with themselves, we'd have hooks for hands.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“The world could have been a blank canvas and I still would have been exactly this livid with happiness, just to be with him.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“Against the sky, the stars crown him, marking the edges of his silhouette like he is a constellation of himself.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“brushes his mouth against the corner of mine, and Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, it takes every ounce of the not-inconsiderable restraint I’ve spent years exercising around Percy not to rip all my clothes off right then, passersby be damned. But I am nothing if not a gentleman, and a gentleman does not take his trousers off in a public place, particularly if the great love of his life is asking him to refrain.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“There is nothing good about watching another man claim your ship because your skin is too dark to do it yourself," he says, each word a glancing wound. "So in future, you needn't demand apologies on my behalf.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury