Alyson

“Even though we’re in the same homeroom, he doesn’t look my way. That’s one of the things about the people on that beautiful tropical island: they can’t see who’s floating about in the ocean around them. Or maybe they can and they just choose not to look. I don’t know. I’ve never been there.”
― Ann Braden, The Benefits of Being an Octopus

“When you're living in a pond of algae, you turn green. It doesn't matter how many times someone tells you to stop.”
― Ann Braden, The Benefits of Being an Octopus

“Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“You have these lines you won’t cross. But then you cross them. And suddenly you possess the very dangerous information that you can break the rule and the world won’t instantly come to an end. You’ve taken a big, black, bold line and you’ve made it a little bit gray. And now every time you cross it again, it just gets grayer and grayer until one day you look around and you think, There was a line here once, I think.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six