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“I want to lay out my dissected body next to his and show him the pieces of us that are the same. Could he tell his arteries from mine, the folds of my brain from his own? If I excised both our eyes and laid them out on a microscope, would there be a difference?”
― Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

“I didn’t know how to explain to her that I didn’t want to be a boy because it was easier than being a girl. I wasn’t pretending. It was just that my girlhood was—and still is—simply, factually, incorrect.”
― Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

“Keys meant Neil had explicit permission to be here and do what he liked. They meant he belonged.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court

“You gave me a key and called it home.”
― Nora Sakavic, The King's Men