Alexander

“A thing like this, dreaded for so long, finally arrives and among the avalanche of emotions there is a bitter and unbearable relief. It comes as a form of aggression, this relief, bringing with it strangely pugnacious thoughts. Enemies beware: the worst has happened. My father is gone. My madness will now bare itself.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

“I am not a man because of my biology; I am a man because I am. I am, I am, I am.”
― Ezra Woodger, To Be A Trans Man: Our Stories of Transition, Acceptance and Joy

“When a person has a poor ear for music he will flat and sharp right along without knowing it. He keeps near the tune, but is not the tune. When a person has a poor ear for words, the result is a literary flatting and sharping; you perceive what he is intending to say, but you also perceive that he does not say it.”
― Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper�s Literary Offenses