Stephanie

“I don’t feel like any of them,” I said slowly. “I don’t feel, in my heart, that I’m a boy. But neither do I feel like I am inherently a girl. My soul isn’t rooted to any of them. I’m just me. No particular body feels more ‘right’ than the other, nor more wrong. They’re just vessels. And with you … it doesn’t matter to me how you look, what form you take.” I tapped the top of his cane. “You’re just you.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“Trying to keep the people I loved alive was like trying to cup the rain in my palms, every drop so precious and fragile and important, only to watch them seep, inevitably, back into the earth.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates