Morgan Khandani

“Like, you walk away from a person you can't help, you don't want to help, and you leave them there in your old life with all their problems and their sorrow, and you're risking the version of reality where you could have fixed them. I can't fix anybody. I've got my own shit, we all do. Every time you leave someone's life you risk being the worst thing that's ever happened to them, or the last thing to ever happen to them, don't you?”
― Sarah Maria Griffin, Eat the Ones You Love

“For me, keeping up appearances for strangers in pews feels more backward than anything else. Deeming every girl that doesn't perform high femininity as a "curse", and deeming femininity you don't like as "Jezebel behavior" surely is a U-turn straight to hell. But to our family, it was just a part of being a god-fearing woman raising god-fearing (read: normal) girls.”
― KB Brookins, Pretty: A Memoir

“That's why, to me, it was comical that, at family reunions after I went to college, folks had the audacity to ask me, 'Why don't you come to church anymore?,' as if anybody would choose to be around people delusional enough to think that their hypocritical asses were going to heaven. As if anybody would want to frequent a building built on judgment and bigotry, though they tell themselves they've made 'god's house'. God should've tore that shit down brick by brick. God should've evicted every damn body who was more worried about my queerness than doing close readings of the book they used to condemn me.”
― KB Brookins, Pretty: A Memoir

“Like the bride who marries into other families, a child is meant to grow up and take care of their parents in their old age. They wanted us because they're afraid to die alone or leave no legacy, but here we are - forced to survive in a world with strange rules and now an uncertain future.”
― Trang Thanh Tran, They Bloom at Night