Naima

“Even now, I can look out my window and see him standing in my yard. He’s looking up at my window. Hungry and tired out there in the snow. I had better go let him in.”
― Clinton W. Waters, (UN)Bury Your Gays

“He's always going to be old. He has to be. That's the only way I can stay young and dripping with beauty.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“Girls in those stories are always victims, and I am not. And it doesn’t have anything to do with what Strane did or didn’t do to me when I was younger. I’m not a victim because I never wanted to be, and If I didn’t want to be, then I’m not. That’s how it works. The difference between rape and sex is state of mind. You can’t rape the willing, right?”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“This, I think, is the cost of telling, even in the guise of fiction. Once you do, it’s the only thing about you anyone will ever care about. It defines you whether you want it to or not.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa