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“Why does everyone else just assume we all see the world the same way?!”
― とんがり帽子のアトリエ 3 [Tongari Bōshi no Atelier 3]
― とんがり帽子のアトリエ 3 [Tongari Bōshi no Atelier 3]
“Thank you for seeing me when other people looked through me like I was a ghost”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“But it does seem like I’m always the one who has to speak up and tell everyone how I’m different. I have to find a way to help them understand me, even though I don’t really understand them either. Having a gender? Why? Feeling like your body and who you are inside line up all the time? How? Identifying with other folks of your assigned gender as a kid, when I identified with things like extra-fluffy cumulus clouds and nebulas? What does that even feel like? I get nervous trying to explain myself sometimes. I get tired. I grow sharp edges where I didn’t think I had any. And I definitely get to the point where I just want to bury myself in baking and not deal with any of it.”
― The Heartbreak Bakery
― The Heartbreak Bakery
“You are here because you wish to sail the Starless Sea and breathe the haunted air.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“Two things that are each complete, yet cannot exist without each other. Things which can never be separated, yet can never be together. Like life, existence, light. And shadow, nothingness, death. For each to exist, for us to remain ourselves, there is something akin to a boundary-- a wall, a barrier. That allows those two halves of a whole to forever stay apart. Avoidance is bliss. To meet is to cause each other unhappiness. To cause strife and suffering. Just like it did for us. That may simply be the fate of this world. But if you meet and can accept that suffering, the two may finally become one. In the end that may be the curse.”
― とつくにの少女 11
― とつくにの少女 11
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Art, Classics, Comics, Fantasy, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Manga, Mystery, Paranormal, Poetry, Romance, Science fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Travel, Young-adult, gay, lgbt, lesbian-fiction, lesbian, queer-lit, genderqueer, agender, transgender, graphic-novels-comics, magic, and cozy-mystery
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