“Should I tell you that when we're apart, your body comes back to me in dreams? That when I sleep, I see you, the dip of your waist, the freckle above your hip, and when I wake up in the morning, it feels like I've just been with you, the phantom touch of your hand on the back of my neck fresh and not imagined? That I can feel your skin against mine, and it makes every bone in my body ache? That, for a few moments, I can hold my breath and be back there with you, in a dream, in a thousand rooms, nowhere at all?”
― Red, White & Royal Blue
― Red, White & Royal Blue
“Rejecting your gay or transgender child won't make them straight. It will only mean you will lose them.”
― Inanna Rising: Women Forged in Fire
― Inanna Rising: Women Forged in Fire
“There were times when the pressure to achieve happiness felt almost oppressive, as if happiness were something that everyone should and could attain, that any sort of compromise in its pursuit was somehow your fault.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.”
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“It’s not the world that’s cruel. It’s the people in it.”
― The Foxhole Court
― The Foxhole Court
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