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“It’s devastating, really, how awful queer people can be to other queer people, when what they’re really trying to fight are the wider social structures attacking their queerness. We enact repeated cycles of rejection upon each other, obliterating ourselves like aimless Pac-Mans circling a doomed maze.”
― Amrou Al-Kadhi, Life as a Unicorn: A Journey from Shame to Pride and Everything in Between

“Niceness is all about what we do when other people are looking. Kindness, on the other hand, runs deep. Kindness is what happens when no one’s looking.”
― Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

“Because,” she said, “when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Relationships are funny. They’re messy and scary and horrible sometimes, yes. But funny all the same.”
― Jake Maia Arlow, How to Excavate a Heart