All Out Quotes

“For you, happiness is being with a man. For me, happiness is being among friends. Love takes many forms, Will Scarlet. If I must lie to the world to be true to my heart, then I'll lie. I'll cheat, I'll steal, and I'll do it with a smile. Love is the only higher power I answer to, and my love is no less for being chaste.”
― Elliot Wake, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“That is the secret to survival. Teach fear to those who taught you to be afraid.”
― Scott Tracey, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“All I'm saying," said Vince, "is we don't need to have ourselves all figured out in one night. You know?”
― Nilah Magruder, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“Now that I had something to lose all I could think about was holding onto the thing I'd found.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“Sometimes, in a thunderstorm, a lance of white fire would spear down from heaven and split the stone heart of an ancient tree, a crack so deep it seemed to come from the core of the earth. You could feel the skin of the world tense against it.
Robin's kiss felt like that.”
― Elliot Wake, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“In all the tales of adventure Clara had ever heard, it was never young girls, who were daring. It was always boys running off to rescue a friend or fetch much-needed medicine or stumble into good fortune. Clara knew girls would be daring if given half the chance. And she intended to take that chance, right from under the pale nose of Mr. Earwood.”
― Natalie C. Parker, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“Let go of which cannot be held.”
― Kate Scelsa, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“Acceptance of a thing makes it easier," he said. "No amount of resisting ever kept winter from coming.”
― Scott Tracey, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“All my life, people have told me what to do or taken what's mine. The same is true for you! We've been raised among pirates who call themselves gentlemen. And I'm ready to turn the tables. I'm ready to take what's mine and maybe a few things that aren't.”
― Natalie C. Parker, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“Here Lies Constatijn, slain by the first penis he saw that wasn't his own.”
― Mackenzi Lee, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“I wish I was like them,” I told Tuck as we watched Alix and Rashida sharpen their swords. Their bodies moved in rhythm, one girl beginning a motion that the other completed. “Women who are lovers aren’t looked at with revulsion.”
“Women are seen as less than men. That’s why they’re permitted indulgences—they’re pretty pets. Is that so much better?”
― Elliot Wake, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“She was alone as she had never been. Alone with precious few possessions and no notion of where to take them except away from Mr. Earwood and the promise of a landlocked life.”
― Natalie C. Parker, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“Something goes still inside Lily, as if her heart took a breath before it continued beating.”
― Malinda Lo, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“Wilhelm's hands trembled. “I'll bring you only misery.”
“I'll take a lifetime of misery with you over a day of love from Mr. Dubois.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“Mary shook her head, chastened at how little she understood the working of this odd place, where there were multitudes of servant dining rooms, and lords helped other lords with their underclothes.”
― Robin Talley, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“How can I expect them to understand me when I haven't let them know who I am? It's me who's made myself a prisoner. And only I hold the key to my release.”
― Alex Sanchez, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“Now he told me again as I stared up into the night, the stars switching on, disintegrating the sky into glitter, a dark body slowly consumed with light.”
― Elliot Wake, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“Askim,” I hear my mother yell from downstairs. “Do you want to come join us downstairs? Or do you want to be by yourself and have a sad, lonely year?” Mom has never been a fan of beating around the bush.”
― Sara Farizan, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“That night in Robin’s arms I kissed his smooth throat, unmarked by the apple of Eve’s deceit. I touched the leather bindings beneath his tunic.”
― Saundra Mitchell, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages

“Do you think the Y2K thing is going to mess everything up? Katie asked.
"I don't know. I think everything's already messed up after Columbine. Like, what kind of world do we live in if you can get shot up in your high school?"
"That was horrible. But I think it's kind of a one-time thing. People won't stand for that kind of tragedy to keep happening.”
― Sara Farizan, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“That was how Léon and I left them, both of us showing hearts so fierce these men considered them knives.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“And then Wilhelm Appeared. Not in a cloud of smoke or a flash of light, but in the moment where the heart skips a beat. Not there and then there.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“Ugh. Feelings are gross,” I said softly.”
― Sara Farizan, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“I was foggy today. That was what we had come to call it. Days when a cloud seemed to descend over everything around me. My thoughts went slowly, tripping awkwardly over each other to get where they needed to be. Moving through space became an exercise in walking through water. Vivie could always tell when I was having a foggy day. She noticed things like that.

'Going slow today,' I said before she could.

It was hard to say exactly when the problem started. The fog had crept up on me over the past year, like a nagging obligation. Days that felt a little 'off' had led to strange visions, auras of color circling around objects and people. Then the feeling of dread that accompanied this underwater life, as if somehow I really was walking around on the bottom of the ocean, and it was only a matter of time before I realized that I didn't know how to breathe down here.”
― Kate Scelsa, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“Being a girl is stupid. People only want to know whom you want to kiss and nothing else.”
― Sara Farizan, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“Sometimes, in a thunderstorm, a lance of white fire would spear down from the heavens and split the stone heart of an ancient tree, a crack so deep it seemed to come from the core of the earth. You could feel the skin of the world tense against it. Robin's kiss felt like that.”
― Elliot Wake, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“Jesus, take me now. Scoop me from this earth; I shall never recover.”
― Mackenzi Lee, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“bronze fox, tarnished with fingerprints. The symbol of Locksley.”
― Saundra Mitchell, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages

“The days are getting longer, the darkness on its heels for another season. In the setting sun, I kiss her, and she tastes like marigolds.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages