All the Queer Quotes

“He was watching me under those drooping lids, with need and satisfaction too, much as if he imagined he had the whip hand of me now. That was his youth showing, the peculiar conviction that a hard prick is a source of power rather than a vulnerability, not to say a weakness.”

"Looking back, I just think they can go fuck themselves. I mean, I wouldn’t actually say that to them. They were like six. But if I ever have a kid of my own and maybe someday I will—I hope so—I’m not going to raise them like that. Believing the shape of their world is the only shape for the world to be. Well"

Megatron stood there silently, trying to—take it in, Optimus realized; to enlarge himself enough to fit this into his own cold and brutal understanding of the universe. Optimus stood beside him, his chest aching and full of sorrow, because he knew that the room for love was only made by love. If you’d never been given it, if you’d never felt its touch—he didn’t know if Megatron could make that space inside himself, just by seeing that it existed somewhere else.

Good women make bad choices in men all the time because women who are attracted to men have to drastically lower their standards to ever get laid. When you're automatically lowering your standards all the time, it's easy to lose track of that level below which you should not dip. But to be fair, men run around accusing women of being fake and tricking them into relationships because they wear makeup, whereas there's an entire subset of men who trick women into relationships by pretending they won't ever punch them in the face.

“What thing about two alphas?” Ari asked after a long pause. Cole huffed, frustrated. He wasn’t good with words, but that normally didn’t stop TJ and Ari from getting what he meant. “You said that… that I don’t need a list, because you two…” He waved in their direction. “And having a list with only two people in it is ancient?” Ari said slowly. Cole glared at him. “What are you playing at? You kept saying we this and we that, we will support you. What even…” He had to stop and breathe so he wouldn’t shout. His mother had agreed to stay out of the house but she was in the back tending their vegetable patch and he knew her well enough to know that it wouldn’t fly if he actually screamed at them. It was TJ who got it first. “Oh, you think…. Oh, god, you think we were asking you to take us both?” TJ’s horror made it very clear that Cole had misinterpreted, but now he felt even worse—embarrassed instead of angry. “Yes!” he snapped. “What else was I supposed to think?” “Ok, wait,” Ari cut in. “It was an honest misunderstanding. We probably used the word ‘we’ a lot and it sounded like that. We just… I just meant that I will be supporting you in this even if you don’t want me to be your alpha. And I think TJ…” He glanced at the other. TJ nodded. “Yes, exactly! We’re not going to fight over you, or get offended that you didn’t choose us, or anything like that. We’re behind you a hundred percent, no matter what.” Cole stared at them. “But why?” “Cole,” Ari said, sounding put-upon. “Why wouldn’t we want to help our best friend when he needs it?” “But this isn’t helping, this is…”

Sentinel was looking at him stricken, his face open in a way Optimus hadn’t seen it in what felt like forever. Not since they’d been fresh cadets together, both of them trying so hard to be heroes. To make themselves into warriors, against their own programming; trying to be strong and tough and hard, and convincing themselves that was the definition of bravery. Except this was what it really meant to be brave: to choose something that terrified you, to give up everything you cared about, to keep going towards a small struggling spark of hope. It—was a lot harder. Optimus reached out and put his hand flat against the forcefield, wishing suddenly that he could reach through, take Sentinel’s hand, pull him into a hug. “All I can do is ask,” he said softly. “All you can do is try. Sometimes that’s all there is to do. To save something, even if we can’t save everything.”