Adriannne

“Just the way I know you will again, after you walk barefoot down the dirt drive to your mailbox, slit open my envelope and find these cards, after you finally hold in your hand what for all those years I could never bring myself to show you.”
― Cara Blue Adams

“The truth is, there is no better place to live than in the shadow of a beautiful, furious mountain.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“And if she cast it in a more dramatic terms than she was willing to do, explained, emphasized, that she had said no, he would still be angry and she would be a rape victim, and that was not what she wanted to be. Those girls went around perpetually fifteen, weak, cutting themselves or wearing unattractive clothes, on the bring of crying when no one expected it. No thank you.”
― Cara Blue Adams

“As my friend Julian puts it, only half winkingly: “God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason God made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation.”
― Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You