Resentful Reads

“The victor is king, the loser is an outlaw—that is the sole genuine principle in this world. If we succeed, we are right. If we fail, we are traitors.”

“This is how thinking works. The more you think, the deeper you go, and the more you go in circles.”

“Some people don't think asexual or aromantic people count as queer, or just not queer enough without another letter tacked on, and—well, it's a shitty feeling, being told that you don't belong by people who are supposed to know what it's like to be treated like there's something wrong with you.”

I know problems don't go away just because you refuse to look at them, but it's the difference between protecting a bruise and hitting it with a hammer. It's easier to pretend nothing has changed than to acknowledge the ways things have already changed. The ways they're still changing.

People already think you're childish when you're asexual, or that you're not quite grown up yet, or just naive. They already don't take you seriously.

“I already know that dating while asexual is harrowing, which is exactly why I don't do it. It feels like an asterisk after my name, or a warning label on the back of my head: If you want that full Hollywood experience, look else-where.”