Em

“Mama says a little distraction is part of growing up. A busier to-do list means a busier brain. The thing is, my brain isn’t busy. There’s this tender emptiness inside me. Like a bruise that doesn’t turn purple, still I feel its ache under my skin.”
― David Ly, Queer Little Nightmares

“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

“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

“He had known war. And war was the most civilized form of murder there was.”
― C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny