Brandy Cross

“How does one get across the fact that the best way to find out how people feel about their gender or their sexuality—or anything else, really—is to listen to what they tell you, and to try to treat them accordingly, without shellacking over their version of reality with yours?”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“It is one thing to know something intellectually and quite another to feel it emotionally”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“Sometimes you fall, spinning through space, grasping for the things that keep you on this earth. Sometimes you catch them.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Necklace of Kisses