Mina

“And he did not want to be loved as a second choice, as a surrender. He had spent his whole life not being loved at all, and he had thought being loved enough would satisfy him. It would not. He did not want to be loved enough. He wanted to be loved overwhelmingly. (...) He had never been chosen, so he had never had a chance to know this about himself before now: he wanted to be chosen first.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

“Girls who are ignored can learn to be impossible, can learn to listen, and look, and learn more than they were ever meant to know.”
― A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall

“I wanted to be that kind of shining adult. But would I get there if I was always worrying about what my parents thought?”
― Nagata Kabi, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

“The murderous, man-hating elf girl, and the intense gay kid?' asked the medic. 'You’re the weirdo table.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands