Ally

“She took her eucharist before me, and I quietly apologised to Jesus for the downgrade from her tongue to mine.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“Love was a room that appeared when you stepped into it. Cyrus understood that now, and stepped.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“I tried to imagine what it must be like, trying to come out to a family like this. Maybe it was no harder than coming out to my own mother. The Schwebels would have religious misgivings, but I had a feeling they would still accept Miriam for who she was.”
― Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men