Cassi Miranda

“You don’t have to have a reason to be tired. You don’t have to earn rest or comfort. You’re allowed to just be.”
― Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

“Not everyone is equipped for activism in the traditional sense—marching, writing letters to officials—but dedicating your life to understanding yourself can be its own form of protest, especially when the world tells you that you don't exist.”
― Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

“Our understanding of the interior lives of those who are not like us is contingent on their ability to articulate themselves in the language we know. The further removed people are from proficiency in that language, the less likely they are to be understood as complex individuals. The audience often fills in the blanks with their own preconceptions. But visual language is more easily parsed and a much more democratic form of communication.”
― Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

“Because that’s what a sister is: a piece of yourself you can finally love, because it’s in someone else.”
― Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds