Sapphic Quotes

“I fell in love with you the day that I met you, and then I fell in love with the person you remembered you are. I got to fall in love with you twice. That’s— that’s magic. You’re the first thing I’ve believed in since— since I don’t even remember, okay, you’re— you’re movies and destiny and every stupid, impossible thing, and it’s not because of the fucking train, it’s because of you. It’s because you fight and you care and you’re always kind but never easy, and you won’t let anything take that away from you. You’re my hero, Jane. I don’t care if you think you’re not one. You are.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“She’s inching forward.
Is there a heterosexual explanation for why she’s inching forward?”
― Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars

“I don’t believe doing something in front of everybody makes it more meaningful, anyway. If anything, it makes it stop belonging to you.”
― Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

“What do you want?
I want to stop living in fear. I want to stop coming up with excuses about why I'm not interested in dating. I want my family to know me. I want to get to learn more about Lisa. I want to stop feeling like everything I am is inadequate or makes me unworthy of love because of something I can't help.”
― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel

“Tell me what you want,” she said, “and I will make it happen.”
I want my liar, I thought.
I want her mouth.
I want her perfume to rub off on my skin like bruised grass.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie

“You were the only one it could be.”
― Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

“I have been married seven times, and never once has it felt half as right as this. I think that loving you has been the truest thing about me”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“She’s glad it’s Shara. Nobody else would have felt important enough.”
― Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

“Through her eyes, I was able to experience the story for the first time all over again.”
― S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood

“We weren't made to be alone. We were made to love. And when we love, we automatically know God without trying to, because God is love. If we love as he made us to love—if we love with our hearts instead of our criteria—then we simply are love.”
― Kelly Quindlen, Her Name in the Sky

“Hate like that—when it's disguised as love, or righteousness or pity—I'm not going to subject you to hate like that.”
― Kelly Quindlen, Her Name in the Sky

“Don't let happiness slip through your fingers because of old angers and mistakes.”
― Lyn Denison, Gold Fever

“I tell her I sing roses too, / My hands in the dirt where she lives forever”
― Sappho

“I let it all out: the joy and the pain. The waiting and the wanting. The future and the past. We kiss for so long I can't tell the difference between seconds and minutes anymore, but it's still not enough. I will never get enough of this. Kissing Iz feels like coming home.”
― Katia Rose, Stop and Stare

“She nodded so subtly as she passed, like we were both in the cartel, and the cartel was gay.”
― Eliana Ramage, To the Moon and Back

“Thank you for showing me that surviving is not always living.”
― K.R. Richard, Unified Shadow

“Hope is a feeling. You can hide from it. You can pretend nothing hurts you. But I've seen your heart, Oskaren Alinac. It might be broken, but it still beats.”
― Victoria Carbol, A Great and Powerful Tyranny

“It hits me in a sudden wave. In a crashing of thunder. I wobble on unsteady legs, gathering my senses and my balance at the same time. My mom knows. The secret is out. No more lying, no more pretending. From here on out, when she looks at me, she’ll see who I really am. She doesn’t have the words yet, but she knows. And—somehow, improbably—she still loves me.”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical

“This is the girl who flirted with me at a church picnic. The girl who texted me pictures of otters in the middle of the night and whispered love in my ear. This is the girl who was brave enough to kiss me first, when I was still desperately trying to figure out if she liked me or if she liked me.”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical

“Well,” she says, shyly, a little coyly, “there’s this prom coming up . . .” Fireflies light up inside me. “Uh-huh.” A question doesn’t come; she doesn’t even finish that sentence. Instead, Alyssa, with her reedy voice and uncertain smile, sings to me, “I just want to dance with you, let the whole world melt away and dance with you . . .”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical

“A kiss is yes,” Alyssa warns me. Warning taken. That’s why I engulf her in my arms and lift her off the ground, just an inch, and kiss her until we see nothing but the two of us, the edge of forever, and the end of the world.”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical

“The explosion of music didn’t startle me, but hands suddenly around my waist from behind do. Relieved, I sink back against Emma to anchor myself and look over my shoulder. “You’re not supposed to be here,” I tease. “It’s bad luck to see the prom before prom night.” She presses a kiss to my neck and hugs me close. “I promise, I’m not looking. But I don’t need to see it to know that everything looks fantastic.”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical

“Never, not once in her life, had anyone given her this feeling before. It was like this person was a cool, clear stream of water and she could jump in and wash herself clean of everything. She was looking for a religion maybe: and here it was. As simple as that.”
― Mariana Villa-Gilbert, A Jingle Jangle Song

“You wrote of being in a village upthread together, living as friends and neighbours do, and I could have swallowed this valley whole and still not have sated my hunger for the thought. Instead I wick the longing into thread, pass it through your needle eye, and sew it into hiding somewhere beneath my skin, time”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“The girl will always get the girl—but first, she may have to survive prophecy, betrayal, and a few beautifully terrible decisions.”
― G. Ennix, Bloodlines and Betrayals: Book One: The Awakening

“When she is close to happiness, I don’t mind being a casualty.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“I see the whole world being against me. And I’m not sure a girl who likes girls is someone I want to be.”
― Rebecca Bendheim, When You're Brave Enough

“With him. With you. With the fact that I can want him and then sit here and want you and not know whether that makes me false or greedy or just completely ordinary in a way no one bothered to mention.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim: A Sultryverse Story

“I had learned that no could be received without punishment and that asking did not make desire smaller, only cleaner.”
― Jean Thesquare

“The kiss was gentle at first, attentive, like she was listening through the lips.”
― Jean Thesquare, Re:Claim: A Sultryverse Story