Estefanie

“A friend said to me, “Hey you need to grow a pair. Grow a pair, Bro.” It’s when someone calls you weak, but they associate it with a lack of testicles. Which is weird, because testicles are the most sensitive things in the world. If you suddenly just grew a pair, you’d be a lot more vulnerable. If you want to be tough, you should lose a pair. If you want to be real tough, you should grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.”
― Sheng Wang

“The carousel’s over now,” he tells her quietly. “This time your family is waiting for you.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden

“Marriages can float apart. Sometimes we don’t notice how far we’ve gone until all of a sudden, the water meets the horizon and it feels like we’ll never make it back.” She paused and looked only at me. “Listen for each other’s heartbeat in the current. You’ll always find each other. And then you’ll always find the shore.”
― Ashley Audrain, The Push

“My secrets are old friends; I would feel like a poor friend if I abandoned them now.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden