Carolina Troxell

“I figured if I hoped hard enough, you wouldn’t stand a chance, that even if you were straight, you’d succumb to my sparkling charm and wit and you’d convert just for me.”

I almost choked on the last sip of my wine. “And you’d win the toaster oven,” I teased.

“Yes,”
― Eva Indigo, Laughing Down the Moon

“I went downstairs to Dad’s encyclopedia and looked up HOMOSEXUALITY, but that didn’t tell me much about any of the things I felt. What struck me most, though, was that, in the whole long article, the word “love” wasn’t used even once. That made me mad; it was as if whoever wrote the article didn’t know that gay people actually love each other. The encyclopedia writers ought to talk to me, I thought as I went back to bed; I could tell them something about love.”
― Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind

“She is a beautiful piece of broken pottery, put back together by her own hands. And a critical world judges her cracks while missing the beauty of how she made herself whole again.”
― J.M. Storm

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo