eleven

“But your fear is not only hurting me, it's hurting you, limiting you from being everything you could be. Consider how often you have dismissed your own appearance, behaviours, emotions, and aspirations for being too feminine or masculine. What might your life be if you didn't impose these designations on yourself, let alone on me?”
― Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men.

“do not worry
about people
they're wearing the same flesh
breathing the same chemicals
walking on the same solid earth as you

so why should it matter
when you are them and they are you”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“Sometimes you are erased before you are given the choice of stating who you are.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“I want to travel to be away from home
so that I can return, loving it as much as
it deserves to be loved.

I want to go away from home
just for returning back here
to realize everything I have ever neglected
is worth loving and
worrying for.”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon