ISABELLA

“I was— am— terrified of being owned. By a god or a man or a child or a place. By anyone or anything but myself.”
― Brenna Womer, Atypical Cells of Undetermined Significance

“Often we examine parts of her body together, as if their paralysis had rendered them objects of inquiry independent of us both. But they are still hers. No matter what happens to our bodies in our lifetimes, no matter if they become like 'pebbles in water,' they remain ours; us, theirs.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“I have heard that this pain can be converted, as it were, by accepting “the fundamental impermanence of all things.” This acceptance bewilders me: sometimes it seems an act of will; at others, of surrender.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“The kindness in his voice hurt”
― Cassandra Clare