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“Name one hero who was happy.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“When we were together, he’d tell me what he wanted to do to me. He wasn’t asking permission. I was not an unwilling participant. I was not a willing participant. I felt nothing one way or the other. I wanted him to love me. I wanted to make him happy…. The more I gave, the more he took. At school, he continued to look right through me. I was dying but I was happy.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“Never underestimate the power of fiction to tell the truth.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis