Sarah

“you can use words to hide things, or not to touch them, or to pretend that they’re something different than they are.”
― M.R. Carey, The Girl With All the Gifts

“It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to BE itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“How does one get across the fact that the best way to find out how people feel about their gender or their sexuality—or anything else, really—is to listen to what they tell you, and to try to treat them accordingly, without shellacking over their version of reality with yours?”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre