Ace Quotes

I said school starts tomorrow. I didn’t say I was going to be there.

It wasn’t that she hated the idea of sex, just . . . she didn’t want it. Didn’t need it. But no one else ever seemed to feel that way

I love being touched. I don’t like the expectations that come with it.

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.

-No somos villanos- respondió Ace, apretando una mano para formar un puño-. Quizás sea el retrato que nuestros enemigos han pintado de nosotros, pero no dejaremos que nos defina. Somos librepensadores. Revolucionarios.

As with all new inventions, there are upsides and downsides. The commercial drone is no exception. But until robust safeguards have been introduced to protect personal privacy from prying eyes in the skies, the true benefits to society of unmanned aerial vehicles will remain unrealised.

What made sex so integral that people couldn’t separate the emotional
love they felt from one physical act?
Love shouldn’t hinge solely on exposing your physical body to another
person. Love was intangible. Universal. It was whatever someone wanted it
to be and should be respected as such.

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.

I think I might have a crush.

Shit.

The notion that I might be asexual seemed laughable.
[...]
Never did it occur to me that my friends and I might be using the language of desire differently. For them, a word like "hot" could indicate a physical pull of the type Jane had described.
For me, "hot" conveyed an admiration of excellent bone structure.
Their sexual encounters were often motivated by libido; I didn't even know that I lacked a libido.

And just as asexuality is not a disease to be cured, sex-aversion isn't a pathology unless the person experiencing it decides that it is.

It had taken her a while to figure it out, skirting around the Queer Club at school and going to virtual talks with Neela and in-person events with May, but once she tried the ace label on, she felt it fit her like a well-worn T-shirt. She didn't need a label to explain herself, but having 'ace' felt like armor; it was easy to drop a word, to be somewhat understood.

For most people our lives are series of insight fallacies

I explained to her the way I felt I floated up out of myself and observed the whole thing loosely, from a distance. I explained the way i felt no better or worse after doing it, only an overwhelming sense of having missed the point.