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“God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason he made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine: so that humanity might share in the act of creation.”
― Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

“He is lying on his left side, in the fetal position, as if he is trying to get out of this world by the way he came in.”
― William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow

“Other children could have borne it, have borne it. My older brother did, somehow. I couldn't.”
― William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow

“I did not see sin”, says Julian of Norwich in her Revelations, “for I believe that it has no kind of substance, no share in being; nor can it be recognized except by the pain caused by it.”
― Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way