Lgbt Lit Quotes & Sayings

In 1970, at the age of 14, I entered a short story contest offering a grand prize of one dollar. I won. This was my first foray into writing fiction. I loved reading and thought that it shouldn't be so hard to write a story. — David Bergen

Perhaps there is always something in our head that is ready to learn. — Penelope Lively

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. — Stephen Hawking

I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast. — Jared Harris

To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden — Robert Louis Stevenson

There are no hopeless situations, sweetheart, only people who have grown hopeless about them. You still have choices you can make. — Andy Andrews

I'm an openly gay man playing an omnisexual hero, who is loved on both sides of the Atlantic. How could I not be proud of that? — John Barrowman

In loving him, I saw a cigarette between the fingers of a hand, smoke blowing backwards into the room and sputtering planes diving low through the clouds. In loving him, I saw men encouraging each other to lay down their arms. In loving him, I saw small-town laborers creating excavations that other men spend their lives trying to fill. In loving him, I saw moving films of stone buildings; I saw a hand in prison dragging snow in from the sill. In loving him, I saw great houses being erected that would soon slide into the waiting and stirring seas. I saw him freeing me from the silences of the interior life. — David Wojnarowicz

The story of humanity is essentially the story of human movement. In the near future , people will move even more, particularly if, as some predict, climate change sparks mass migration on an unprecedented scale. The sooner we recognize the inevitability of this movement, the sooner we can try to manage it. — Patrick Kingsley

Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account. — Hannah Whitall Smith

I could not help but wonder, that night and later, why my father would even mention my marrying someone who came from a country that my mother so obviously disliked. I recall wondering that distinctly, while somehow missing the obvious connection that this boy was a prince and that I, the niece of a king, was a princess. — Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Acting is making it seem like it's happening now. — Anne Jackson

Are you a mortal being? Then you are an unsuccessful being! — Mehmet Murat Ildan