Lgbt Literature Quotes

#1. A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. - Will it ever be more than a picture?

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#2. I've always loved being gay. Sure, Kenya was not exactly Queer Nation but my sexuality gave me joy. I was young, not so dumb and full of cum! There was no place for me in heaven but I was content munching devil's pie here on earth.

Diriye Osman

#3. I desperately want to simply love him - unequivocally and without reservation - the way I did back then ...

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#4. It's very hard to believe that I'm feeling this. It's like I've been dead all these years and suddenly now...in a matter of days and hours, I came to life. I don't want to die again!

Dan Skinner

#5. The closet encouraged reading.

Jonathan Ned Katz

#6. God sells us all things at the price of labor.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#7. My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.

George R R Martin

#8. Like the voice of a number of homosexuals, this is an insinuating blend of eagerness and caution in which even such words as "hello" and "goodbye" seem not so much uttered as divulged.

Quentin Crisp

#9. Transgender women do not think of themselves as men wearing women's clothing, they ARE women.

Cheryl B. Evans

#10. We have a choice. We can seek for the bad in others. Or we can make peace and work to extend to others the understanding, fairness, and forgiveness we so desperately desire for ourselves. It is our choice; for whatever we seek, that we will certainly find.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#11. I didn't set out to do a gay comic, but given the current political and religious climate in this country, I feel it is important as a gay person, and a Christian, to create stories with humor and honesty.

Paige Braddock

#12. It is quite impossible to write a worth-while novel about a Jew or a Gentile or a Homosexual, for people refuse, unhappily, to function in so neat and one-dimensional a fashion.

James Baldwin

#13. Parts like Morse don't grow on trees. He's a great character.

John Thaw

#14. Imaginations are first where dreams begin.

Anthony Liccione

#15. The crowd cleared a path for them. They returned to their horses and mounted.
"See?" Roshar said, "wasn't that fun?"
Arin looked ready to shove the prince off his horse.

Marie Rutkoski

#16. Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings.

Alber Elbaz

#17. It's never too late to find that one person who can change you, for a reason, a season or a lifetime.

Skye High

#18. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows.

E. M. Forster

#19. It's like what Gandhi said: The world is so hungry for God that God could only come as a piece of bread. We so long for joy that God even risked coming into the world in the form of intoxication, that risky thing called wine.

Ian Morgan Cron

#20. Living in a world of darkness doesn't mean we must surrender, but to survive, we need to occasionally unleash the diva from within.

Skye High

#21. You don't need to have big hairy feet to read The Hobbit, why should you be gay to read a gay book?

Adriano Bulla

#22. I want you forever. I will always be with you. I will always love you. I will love, honor, and cherish you for all eternity.

Katrina D. Miller

#23. Your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before you, I replied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own rhythm you play upon me, drumming me taught.

Jeanette Winterson

#24. If he died tomorrow, it would be because God was not willing to change the future.

Paulo Coelho

#25. Without people coming in to our lives we never evolve, we just remain stagnant. Surely there is more to life than standing still whilst letting it pass you by. What's even worse, is living a life pretending to be someone, or something that you believe others want you to be.

Skye High

#26. Expressing gratitude for the miracles in your world is one of the best ways to make each moment of your life a special one. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your loved ones!

Wayne Dyer

#27. They have started to arrive. An endless cascade of luxuriously quilted envelopes, thumping onto the doormat. The wedding invitations.

David Nicholls