Being Ace Quotes

“There’s nothing lesser about friendship, nor is there anything wrong with who I am, I know this to the roots of my soul. It’s the only thing that keeps my head up when others in this village behave as though I do not belong, simply because I sing in a language they’ve forgotten and love in a way they refuse to understand.”
― S.J. Taylor, Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

“Never say there's anything wrong with you. You saved your younger sister, all by yourself. That was you. That was love.”
― Moniza Hossain, Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

“Orion. You’re our middle star. You got your own gravitation. A little thing like disaster or death is never gonna knock us out of orbit.”
― RoAnna Sylver, Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

“If celibacy is the only way this world can think us real, then so be it. Let us cut ourselves from all the things people call living, cut those earthly ties, and become what they’ve always wanted us to be: unnatural, strange. Not part of what it means to be human.”
― Anju Imura, Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

“You haven't lost anything. You're just as whole as before...Purity is just a state of mind.”
― S.E. Anderson, Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

“It was so dismissive, as if love was some step up from friendship and the steps vanished as soon as you surpassed them.”
― Linsey Miller, Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

“It is all people seem to care about—single or taken, both words somehow a violence. But there is a space outside those words where Brindle and Fig reside, and it is part of what makes them so well suited for each other. They are not single, floating through life independently and alone. They are not taken, like a victim of some theft. Perhaps what they are is given, honestly and hopefully, to one another in equal partnership.”
― Rosiee Thor, Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection