Ana

“Heterosexuality is not merely a sexual orientation that happens to be the orientation of most people. Heterosexuality is a political institution that is taught and conditioned and reinforced.”
― Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex.

“She watched. She waited. She knew she wasnt really a kitchen girl, but she played her role as best she could. But then - the thought came suddenly to her- were any of the kitchen girls really kitchen girls? Even goodwife Ethelinda - the way she could hack apart a side of meat, knife thudding on the counter, blood staining her knuckles; then the next moment construct the most delicate sugared facies, coloured pale and pretty as flower petals, so dainty that a single breath could toppld them. The same two hands used to make both. Was anyone one thing only?”
― Kirsty Logan, Now She is Witch

“Nothing beyond your own wishes that are always satisfied. You just want to impose your own will on the world and pretend you're a savior.”
― A. G. Slatter

“Either way, there was the clear sense that we were no longer just background characters in each others lives, passing through the periphery with mutual disdain. Our roots had suddenly and irrevocably knotted together.”
― Laura Steven, The Society For Soulless Girls