Asumpta K

“Parts of me wanted to ask you to stay. To keep fighting for me. To fight for us. But a certain ideology impeded me from doing so. The idea that when someone loves you enough, they will stay on their own, without you asking them to.”
― Mirtha Michelle Castro Mármol, Letters, To The Men I Have Loved

“Don’t look at me like that,” I said. “I’m not broken because I don’t want the same thing as everyone else. And, no, you’re not invited to fix me, or soften my heart, or make me want things I never knew I wanted.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“If someone doesn’t want you, the only self-respecting thing to do is to let them go”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“When I left, I had just been one of his heartbreaks, not his first. The first was powerful; it changed you. My own had been so devastating, altering the way I looked at men and love. And it wasn’t something that just wore off with time, returning you to your previous state of belief. Once you lost your faith, it was gone.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray