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“Why would someone want to assimilate into being something that was so hateful? Into this society that couldn’t care less if we went extinct? The hurt and horror that people were going through. I’m not ready to go back and hide inside a closet, and just get erased like that.”
― Toshio Meronek, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

“She doesn’t understand that I went to college because I wanted to learn something. I’m a lesbian because that’s the hand I was dealt. She has no idea that I considered her”
― Emily Austin, Is This a Cry for Help?

“I don't say what I'm thinking. I don't tell him how lucky he is, that he can just sit there and admit it, sheepish, but unashamed. Like it's his right. Like it's okay, because she's supposed to belong to someone like him, instead of someone like me.”
― Tess Sharpe, Far From You

“We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?” “To live,” said Camilla. “To live forever,”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History