cacio e petal

“Yes.” Reese nods. “I mean, they go through everything I go through as a trans woman. Divorce is a transition story. Of course, not all divorced women go through it. I’m talking about the ones who felt their divorce as a fall, or as a total reframing of their lives. The ones who have seen how the narratives given to them since girlhood have failed them, and who know there is nothing to replace it all. But who still have to move forward without investing in new illusions or turning bitter—all with no plan to guide them. That’s as close to a trans woman as you can get. Divorced women are the only people who know anything like what I know. And, since I don’t really have trans elders, divorced women are the only ones I think have anything to teach me, or who I care to teach in return.”
― Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

“This book is for hot autistic people, people from the city, people who have been mistaken for a different ethnicity, queer and trans people who are tired of being strong and just want to do jokes, tall girls, and haters.”
― Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin

“At such moments—breathless, ransacked by tenderness—I could hardly look at him: I was afraid of showing him too much of my love, which wasn’t only love but also something like a rotten peach eaten alive by its own sweetness.”
― Aurora Mattia, The Fifth Wound

“Please don't laugh, Miss Carroll. If you're laughing, you must be smiling, and I don't think I can climb back up to see it."
[...]
"My smile," she called out, "would not be worth such exertion."
"You are quite wrong."
"Even so, it is hardly an uncommon commodity."
"That does not lessen its value.”
― Alexis Hall, A Lady for a Duke