Machoii

“You ache. You ache all over. You are aching to be you, but you're scared of what it means to do so.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“Some tears aren't for wounds. Some are for healing.”
― Julian Winters, Right Where I Left You

“Doing your best can be exhausting enough without doing everyone else's best while you're at it.”
― Sarah Knight, You Do You: How to Be Who You Are and Use What You've Got to Get What You Want

“I can see now that it's the little things, the small efforts, that keep a relationship going. And I know now too that in some small measure I have the power to hurt him and also the power to make it better. This discovery leaves me with an unsettling, queer sort of feeling in my chest for reasons I can't explain.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You