Dear Wendy Quotes

“Nobody talks about breaking up with your friends. It sucks. Especially when that friend ditches you to be with whoever they think is The One.”
― Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

“I just... I just feel like, that's how I feel, all the time. Every day. There's that... nagging feeling, you know? It's... it's there when I wake up, it's there when I go to bed. It's there when I'm with my friends, or by myself, or watching a romcom on Netflix. That... that my life doesn't matter as much. That once we're all grown up, I won't be relevant. That everybody actually hates me. Because I can't love people the way everyone else does. So they won't love me at all.”
― Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

“People choose, every day, to be lovers, to be friends, to be family... Bottom line: You don't need to change a thing.”
― Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

“Damn," Priya says, "This'd be a good place to commit arson."
"Please don't commit arson," I say.”
― Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

“And that really made me think for the first time about how this could happen with any friend who's not also aroace. Like, my person, my closest confidant, will probably always have someone else - a romantic partner - that they're closer to.”
― Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

“And still, it's hard to find people like me. The asexual community is small enough as it is; there are fewer aromantic people and even fewer people who are both.”
― Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy