Katrina

“Hands are for other human hands to hold. They should not be reserved exclusively as perches for hawks. And the wild is not a panacea for the human soul; too much in the air can corrode it to nothing.”
― Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

“Things will go wrong. You and your partners will make mistakes. People will get hurt. To paraphrase Voltaire, we are all born of frailty and error. What happens afterward depends on how capable we are to forgive one another for our errors, handle the consequences with grace and dignity, and learn from our mistakes.”
― Franklin Veaux, More Than Two: A practical guide to ethical polyamory

“Every dark cloud may well have its silver lining, but I have come to learn that every silver lining has its dark consequences.”
― Tim O'Brien, Tomcat in Love: A Novel

“The extraordinary and unique quality of the disabled body, I argue, can be seen not only as resisting identification but also, and conversely, as providing a symbolic and actual basis on which to structure a system of identification that seeks to fix individual bodily identity.”
― Ellen Samuels, Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race