Emma Strickler

“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Things will never be different. Women will always give more of themselves to men; at the very least let them pay for dinner.”
― Jana Casale, The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky

“I can’t lose the thing I’ve held onto for so long, you know?” My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. “I just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.”
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa