Davis gray

“I’m trans, and that means a lifetime of hormones. My life will likely be shorter and it’s likely I will be sicker as I get older. I keep my maleness intact with testosterone because my body knows it wasn’t born the way I want it to be. I can change my body but I can’t change my body’s reading of my body. The paradox is that I felt in the wrong body but for my body it was the right body. What I have done calms my mind and agitates my chemistry. Few people know what it’s like to live in this way.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

“Hope is a duty. Hope is our reality.

Shelley says so and he believes it so, but for me the light has gone out. The light inside and the light outside. I have no lantern and no lighthouse. I am at sea in waves too high and the rocks wreck me.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

“The Future is Now. That annoys me because if the future is now, where is the present?”
― Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

“Life, we imagine, is familiar enough until we begin to tell it to another. Then, observe the wonder on their faces--sometimes it is wonder, often it is horror. Only in the living of it does life seem ordinary. In the telling of it we find ourselves strangers among the strange.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story