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“I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.”
― Uma Thurman

“I will greet you with a mouth full of barbed wire until you learn to stop coming after me with your hands.â€�”
― Trista Mateer, The Dogs I Have Kissed

“I Swear Somewhere This Works

In a parallel universe or another world
or a different life,

we sit across from each other

at the kitchen table

and go over
the grocery
list.”
― Trista Mateer, The Dogs I Have Kissed

“But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt. So it goes. People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“It's a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

“But I know about suffering; if that helps. I know that it ends. I ain’t going to tell you no lies, like it always ends for the better. Sometimes it ends for the worse. You can suffer so bad that you can be driven to a place where you can’t ever suffer again: and that’s worse.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

“He laughed. 'Baby. Baby. Baby. I love you. And I'm going to build us a table and a whole lot of folks are going to be eating off it for a long, long time to come.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

“My dear,
In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.
In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile.
In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm.
I realized, through it all, that�
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger � something better, pushing right back.

Truly yours,
Albert Camus�

I like this because only one part is usually quoted but the full quote has such symmetry.”
― Albert Camus

“The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us.”
― Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

“Let's drink to the old faggots who were there and helped make this happen just by being there.”
― Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

“I have done nothing all summer but wait for myself to be myself again.”
― Georgia O'Keeffe, Georgia O'Keeffe

“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Radical simply means "grasping things at the root.”
― Angela Davis

“Growing up and seeing your parents' flaws is like losing your religion. I don't believe in God anymore. I don't believe in my father either.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“And with every step I took it became more impossible for me to turn back. And my mind was empty—or it was as though my mind had become one enormous, anaesthetized wound. I thought only, One day I'll weep for this. One of these days I'll start to cry.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
― James Baldwin

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary