Zoë

“we have been taught to fear the very things that have the potential to set us free”
― Alok Vaid-Menon

“There’s magic in being seen by people who understand—it gives you permission to keep going.”
― Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

“You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“You know how you can remember exactly when and where you read certain books? A great novel, a truly great one, not only captures a particular fictional experience, it alters and intensifies the way you experience your own life while you’re reading it. And it preserves it, like a time capsule.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover