B. Jean

“It makes it very hard to work out where you belong when you are brilliant at things that others find hard, but useless at things that others find easy.”
― Sarah Hendrickx, Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder

“It was all unknown to me then, as I sat on that white bench on the day I finished my hike. Everything except the fact that I didn't have to know. That is was enough to trust that what I'd done was true. To understand its meaning without yet being able to say precisely what it was, like all those lines from The Dream of a Common Language that had run through my nights and days. To believe that I didn't need to reach with my bare hands anymore. To know that seeing the fish beneath the surface of the water was enough. That it was everything. It was my life - like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me.
How wild it was, to let it be.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“You are no longer responsible. You are no longer allowed to give a shit. Nobody can need you ever again. Go.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, Teeth

“Oh, body, be held now by whom you love.
Whole years will be spent, underneath these impossible stars,
when dirt's the only animal who will sleep with you
& touch you with
its mouth.”
― Aracelis Girmay, Kingdom Animalia