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“Not that I was ever really an adolescent, but I had the tenderness of one. That’s what it’s like to be a trans child and not know it. You have all the fragility of adolescence, but none of its resilience, the clever cartilage that always grows back.”
― Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

“Do little boys ever grow out of being fools, I wonder? Or do they simply grow into something worse?”
― C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

“It is a terrible thing to cause pain to something you love, even if it is for its own good – and a more terrible thing still when you cannot be sure you are doing any good at all.”
― C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

“Weaknesses were a human invention. They called it your weakness if they fantasized about murdering you with it.”
― John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In