Best Aromantic Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“She would rather be respected than desired and she didn't understand why a woman would make a different choice than that. When she had been younger, she had felt there was something lacking in her, the way she didn't seem to want passion, pleasure, the way her friends sometimes whispered that they did, the way they giggled over vegetable markets, comparing their husbands' genitals, the way they sighed over kissing scenes in movies, complaining that their husbands never touched them that way anymore. Now Swati didn’t have to feel that there was anything wrong with her. A woman her age wasn’t supposed to want such things.”

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Book:Mother Land

Source: Mother Land

“Like that club from earlier. Some people appreciate that vibe and some don't. If they force people to join when they don't want to, that's harassment. It's the same with romance.”

Inspirational Respect Boundaries Asexuality Aromantic

Book:Is Love the Answer?

Source: Is Love the Answer?

“She’d told him she was asexual at the end of ninth grade—and when he told her he thought he’d never find a boyfriend, she’d told him she was also aromantic and had no desire to date. Early in their freshman year, she’d gone on dates with Jade Miller and Keenan Price just to be nice, but she told them after one date that she didn’t feel a connection.”

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Book:Fate, Coincidence, and Other Curse Words

Source: Fate, Coincidence, and Other Curse Words

“I am just going to be human differently.”

Humanity Aromantic

Author:Angela Chen

“You know why people pair up into couples? Because being a human is fucking terrifying. But it's a hell of a lot easier if you're not doing it by yourself.”

Romance Relationships Friendship Loneliness Asexuality Aromantic

Book:Loveless

Source: Loveless

“For many people, being alone symbolises a failure to live up to the aspirational life that society tells them they should want.”

Relationships Society Loneliness Failure Lgbtq Queer Asexuality Asexual Aromantic Aro

Book:Ace Voices: What it Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace

Source: Ace Voices: What it Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace

“Because I wouldn't lie to you,' she said. 'If I ever want anyone, I'll tell you. As it happens, I've never felt like wanting anyone up to date.”

Growing Up Unfeeling Aromantic

Book:Julius

Source: Julius

“back in my mid-twenties, a friend getting into a relationship could be enough to send me into a spiral of depression and anxiety, simultaneously worried I'd lose the friend and reminded that (as I thought then) I'd be forever alone.”

Ace Asexual Aromantic Aroace Aro

Book:Ace Voices: What it Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace

Source: Ace Voices: What it Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace

“I don't need another person to heal my heart. I don't need a partner... at least, not until and unless I'm ready on my own terms. I don't need to be forced-shipped with anyone or wear anybody else's label. For the first time in a long time, I feel like a weight has been lifted from my shoulders.”

Life Lgbtq Asexuality Ace Asexual Aromantic

Book:The Tyrant’s Tomb

Source: The Tyrant’s Tomb

“I might've said 'yes,' not because I love him any more, but because I care more to be loved than when he went away.”

Romance Platonic Love Jo Laurie Aromantic

Book:Little Women

Source: Little Women

“You, you are, you're a great deal too good for me, and I'm so grateful to you, and so proud and fond of you, I don't know why I can't love you as you want me to. I've tried, but I can't change the feeling, and it would be a lie to say I do when I don't.”

Platonic Love Jo Laurie Aromantic

Book:Little Women

Source: Little Women

“I don't believe it's the right sort of love, and I'd rather not try it," was the decided answer.”

Platonic Love Jo Laurie Aromantic

Book:Little Women

Source: Little Women

“It may be vain and wrong to say it, but- I'm afraid- Laurie is getting too fond of me. Then you don't care for him in the way it is evident he begins to care for you? And Mrs March looked anxious as she put the question. Mercy, no! I love the dear boy, as I always have, and am immensely proud of him, but as for anything more, it's out of the question.”

Platonic Platonic Love Jo Laurie Aromantic Mrs March

Book:Little Women

Source: Little Women

“Not until months afterwards did Jo understand how she had the strength of mind to hold fast to the resolution she had made when she decided she did not love her boy, and never could. It was very hard to do, but she did it, knowing the delay was both useless and cruel.”

Platonic Love Jo Laurie Aromantic

Book:Little Women

Source: Little Women

“How stupid you are child! He meant you of course. Did he? And Jo opened her eyes as if the thought had never occurred to her before.”

Platonic Jo Laurie Aromantic

Book:Little Women

Source: Little Women

“It would trouble me sadly to make him unhappy, for I couldn't fall in love with the dear old fellow merely out of gratitude, could I?”

Love Platonic Jo Laurie Aromantic

Book:Little Women

Source: Little Women

“I don't. I never wanted to make you care for me so, and I went away to keep you from it if I could.”

Love Platonic Jo Laurie Aromantic

Book:Little Women

Source: Little Women

“I am the trees and the flowers you step on. Iam the earth you walk on, the water you drink, the animals you kill. I am the mountains and the never-ending sea. I am here and everywhere else, now and forever. I am Everything.”

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Book:When the Spring Comes

Source: When the Spring Comes

“Assexual. Arromântica. Eu voltei para as palavras até elas parecerem reais na minha cabeça, no mínimo. Talvez elas não fossem reais na cabeça da maioria das pessoas, mas eu poderia fazer com que fossem reais para mim. Eu podia fazer a porra que eu bem entendesse.”

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Book:Loveless

Source: Loveless

“Nothing more,—except that I don't believe I shall ever marry; I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in any hurry to give it up for any mortal man.”

Jo Aromantic

Book:Little Women

Source: Little Women

“... It's selfish of you to keep teasing for what I can't give. I shall always be fond of you, very fond indeed, as a friend, but I'll never marry you, and the sooner you believe it the better for both of us.”

Jo Aromantic

Book:Little Women

Source: Little Women

“... She said, hoping to soothe him with a little reason, which proved that she knew nothing about love.”

Jo Aromantic

Book:Little Women

Source: Little Women

“We don't agree and we never shall, so we'll be good friends all our lives, but we won't go and do anything rash.”

Platonic Jo Aromantic

Book:Little Women

Source: Little Women

“Nowhere is it written in stone that you must love in only one way, only one person, only one time. You haven't missed your shot at love, because love isn't just one thing.”

Love Love Quotes Aromantic

Book:Fire Becomes Her

Source: Fire Becomes Her

“Give your friendships the magic you would give a romance. Because they're just as important. Actually, for us, they're way more important.”

Friendship Lgbt Asexual Aromantic

Book:Loveless

Source: Loveless