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“she has an appointment in fifteen days for another set of tests. She doesn't eat for several hours before leaving the house. Then they draw her blood again. Blood, the snitch everyone hates. It keeps you alive on one condition: transparency. It creeps around the body like a shrewd domestic who has access to every room and knows everything there is to know about you. And who talks under pressure. The body is too basic, too weak; it can't be trusted. Only the mind can console us for its disloyalty; the only flag it flies is that of freedom, made of the bones of truth and the bones of lies - a cross; white against black. Blood respects nothing.”
― Eva Baltasar, Boulder

“Remember, your parents gave you life – but it is a gift, and the giver does not have the right to decide how you use the gift they gave you. It is yours to use in the right way for you.” An anonymous mum sharing their story with Out On An Island”
― Franko Figueiredo-Stow, Out On An Island

“In many ways, the Isle of Wight I know could be described as a place where differences were not welcome, where you must never speak of them. They cannot be acknowledged because keeping up the appearance of civility was more important than acceptance.”
― Franko Figueiredo-Stow, Out On An Island

“Like illness, celibacy makes us more human”
― Eva Baltasar, Boulder