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

“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

“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

“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

“That kiss didn’t start something. It ended every version of me that came before her.”
― Aya Canicosa

“Be careful, Starling," they whispered.
Pel glanced their way, the ghost of a smile touching her lips as her golden eyes dimmed a shade. "Even after a thousand years, my promise is the same. I’ll always come back to you.”
― K.V. Wilson, To Speak with the Stars

“Thyme would handle it. They always did and they always would. And they would complain about it.
"You bet I will, Starling.”
― K.V. Wilson, To Speak with the Stars

“It isn’t until the person gets close enough for me to see that they’ve removed their hood, revealing a Ghostface mask staring back at me. “Oh fuck,” I breathe. Blair has come for me.”
― G.E. Masters, Let The Mask Fall

“I head over to feed my betta fish. Swim Shady darts happily to his food pebbles, sucking them down before drifting into his little castle hideaway”
― G.E. Masters

“Mom looks up, asking the ceiling why I couldn't just be going around sneaking cigarettes and sneaking boys up to my room like a normal girl.

I say nothing.

Johnny asks my parents what decade they're from.

Dad states the year he was born and asks what that has to do with anything.

Mom says Johnny needs to shut up right now.”
― M.E. Girard, Girl Mans Up

“Because something in me already knew, Love doesn’t always show up with a warning.

Sometimes it just lands, and everything before it stops making sense.”
― Aya Canicosa, Of Chasing Raindrops

“I’m held together by caffeine, emotional repression, and maybe one functioning sock.”
― Aya Canicosa, Of Chasing Raindrops

“I wasn't just looking at photographs. I was walking through the aftermath of loving her.”
― Aya Canicosa, Of Chasing Raindrops

“The warmth of Tillie’s skin through the soft fabric of her shirt blazed hotter than any magic Violet had ever burned into the world. If the intention she poured into her candles were spells, this love—this woman—was sorcery.”
― Liz Parker, Witches of Honeysuckle House

“The scalpel unbound by borders, yet the healer bound to home”
― Veronal C, Scalpel Unbound: The Defiant Heart

“There’s no going back from that moment. What she feels for Gwen, she will never feel for anyone else. It is singular and beautiful and she wants more of it. More of Gwen’s hands, and her lips and her time and her affection...”
― Emma R. Alban, Don't Want You Like a Best Friend

“The two of them left standing in the innermost circles of their hoop cages, arms around each other even as their hips remain two feet apart. They separate and stand straight, taking each other in for the first time. It’s just them in their drawers, chemises, and stays, and Beth feels a change in the air. Gwen holds out a hand and together they step out of their hoops and shuffle close to the bed.”
― Emma R. Alban, Don't Want You Like a Best Friend

“She sucks on Gwen’s bottom lip as she roughly tugs open the front clasps on Gwen’s corset, smiling at Beth’s startled gasp and laugh. She didn't know women could be rough together, could be playful together, could be heated and wanting and clutching together until Gwen kissed her at the party and now- now she’s about to learn all the other things they could do together.”
― Emma R. Alban, Don't Want You Like a Best Friend

“Now she wants them together on Gwen’s absurdly plush bed. She wants to know what Gwen tastes like- everywhere.”
― Emma R. Alban, Don't Want You Like a Best Friend

“They lay them over their vanity chair. Such a simple action, but Beth feels like it speaks volumes. Their under things there, together, atop each other. They stand staring at the pile of their skirts, Beth can feel the brush of Gwen’s chemise against her own, close, but not close enough.”
― Emma R. Alban, Don't Want You Like a Best Friend