Arimi Reads

“there is no heart in her chest, only a steel gear”
― Veronica Schanoes, Burning Girls

“Every queer person born before 2010 had to be a self taught cultural archaeologist as a child, forced as we were to sift through compacted layers of heterocentric history to excavate even the tiniest glints of queer representation.”
― Komail Aijazuddin, Manboobs: A Memoir of Musicals, Visas, Hope, and Cake

“She’d wanted me to tell her that I loved her. That she’d done good. That she was good. She’d wanted to be seen and understood by the person best positioned to see and understand her. My heart, already broken, had felt as if it were leaking out: had she imagined, in her last breath, that I didn’t love her?”
― Sarah Langan, Squid Teeth: A Tor Original

“I think as much as you can, follow your heart and trust your gut instinct because that's going to help you gauge how you approach your family and your friends. Be realistic. Hope for the best, but at the same time understand that not everyone might be okay with you in the beginning or further along. But trust your gut and be true to yourself because that is what is going to get you through the good times and the bad.

And talk to the man in the mirror, or the woman in the mirror, or the whoever the fuck you want to be and are in the mirror!”
― Emma Goswell, Coming Out Stories - Personal Experiences of Coming Out from Across the LGBTQ+ Spectrum