Carey

“Reese spent a lifetime observing cis women confirm their genders through male violence. Watch any movie on the Lifetime channel. Go to any schoolyard. Or just watch your local heterosexuals drinking in a bar. Hear women define themselves through pain, or rage against the assumption that they do, which still places pain front and. center. Hear the strange sense of satisfaction when they talk about the men who have hurt them - the unspoken subtext of it being 'because I am a woman'.”
― Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

“The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.”
― Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus

“Memories cool to different temperatures at different speeds.”
― Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus

“Grace Marian Thrale, forty-three years old, stood silent in a hotel doorway in her worn blue coat and looked at the cars and the stars, with the roar of existence in her ears. And like any great poet or tragic sovereign of antiquity, cried on her Creator and wondered how long she must remain on such an earth.”
― Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus