The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School Quotes

“Is it so bad that I wanted to give and receive the same level of affection from my friends as everyone else? But since I liked girls, every bit of physical contact is taken as sexual. It's lonely.”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“Looking at her, I realize I'm not surviving anymore. I'm dancing, and laughing, and living.”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“It's such bullshit that there's stigma around being closeted. We get shit for ''living a lie'' just because we want to survive. I don't want to keep losing everyone I'm close to. I don't want to get disowned and kicked out of my house. It's self preservation, not dishonesty. I don't owe anyone the truth, and I'll take my damn time with talking about it.”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“Tú eres mi otro yo.”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“I feel like I'm always the elephant in the room no one wants to talk about. Do you know what I mean? I make people uncomfortable just by existing ...”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“Mijo, if the Bible tells me I shouldn’t love my kids, then the Bible is wrong.”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“It’s exhausting always having to be aware of whether you’re being too much yourself for other people’s comfort.”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“…any way you engage with your own culture is authentic, because it’s yours.”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“I love the way I look through her eyes.”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“I'm not going to sit down while you argue about what rights should or shouldn't be denied to an entire group of people. There are more appropriate topics to debate.”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“My mom isn't like Bo's parents. We don't have the privilege of being ourselves. It doesn't work like that.
Not for us.”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“But that's the problem, isn't it? I'm not supposed to be thinking about Bianca. Or Jenna. Or Bo. Not like that. I'm supposed to be thinking about Hunter, and how he says my name right and buys me cookies. Hunter who blushes when I talk to him. Hunter...who is not a girl.”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“I shouldn't have to talk about it if I don't want to. I don't want to have to tell everyone.”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“But I just want to be honest about how I feel for once.”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“What's next , we legalize bestiality? Pedophilia? I don't want to think too deeply about what that last comment means. They see me as an animal. A predator.”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“I know I can't take all that shame away from him. But I can start by showing him how much I'm not ashamed. Not only am I not ashamed, I'm proud. I can't make him love himself. The closest I can get is loving myself unapologetically in front of him. Like Bo did in front of me. Maybe then he'll get it.”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“She grins. “Best way to piss them off is by protesting their shitty views while still getting an A. It’s my only talent.”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“Let's just say there's not a lot of melanin over there. I could probably pay my tuition selling sunscreen between classes.”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“Cesar is Mom’s little baby. He breaks a mirror and she’ll want to know if his hand is okay. I break a mirror and I’m grounded, at the very least.”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“I don't know if I even want to get married. I mean, I'm only sixteen, so I don't exactly spend a lot of time thinking about it. But one day, who knows? I'd like to think it could at least be an option.”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“You can't put us through a year of scripture class and expect us to learn only the convenient parts”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“I make me uncomfortable”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“Anyway. You got to let go of any kind of expectation on the other person and enjoy the feeling, you know? Let the butterflies stick around. Eat it up whenever she does something cute, just because it’s cute. It’s a crush, it’s supposed to be fun.”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“That Catholic guilt still messes me up, though. If there’s a hell, I’m definitely going there. I’m actually pretty terrified of that.”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“That little asshole licks my hand.”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“We get to the festival, and Bo's parents are two of only a handful of white people. And for once, it's not my turn to be uncomfortable. I'm with my people now. It's not that I want them to be uncomfortable. I'm just sick of being the one to shoulder the un-comfortability of every situation so other people can feel like everything is normal. This is my normal.”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“I think a lot of white people don't know what it feels like to be the only one, you know?"
"Exactly! They just don't know what it's like to not be white in a place full of white people! I kind of loved that about tonight. I feel like my parents felt how I always feel. I don't think they've ever been such a small minority before. It's not the same, though, since they just got to see all the fun stuff, and then go back home to their comfortable house where they never have to think about race.”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“Well, I don't believe that. There's nothing wrong with us. There's nothing to fix, besides your backward attitude.”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“I look away and ask myself my new motto, WWSGD? What Would a Straight Girl Do? I can acknowledge a cute butt straightily, right? Maybe I’m looking out of jealousy, and not attraction—maybe I just want to know her workout regimen.”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“What?” I sit up. How can she ask me a favor, and ground me, while she’s cuddling me? I’m surprised my neck hasn’t broken from the whiplash.”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School