Marti

“It would be the easiest thing in the world to lose everything,”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“The next morning, I watched his older brother hold him in his arms as he looked at me with tears in his eyes. "It's a boy, Ari. It's a boy!" And I knew what he was thinking. And he's going to be straight. And he's going to give my parents the grandchildren I will never be able to give them.
Does being gay screw with our heads and our hearts?”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“The world is not a safe place for us. There are cartographers who came and made a map of the world as they saw it. They did not leave a place for us to write our names on that map. But here we are, we're in it, this world that does not want us, a world that will never love us, a world that would choose to destroy us rather than make a space for us even though there is more than enough room.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“The Hague Convention sought to make war more humane. We had reached a point in history where we believed it was possible to make war humane.”
― Alice Winn, In Memoriam