Holly

“My leg hair reminds me of wildflower meadows. My head hair is long pond grass. My armpit hair is a hawthorn bush. My pubic hair is wet moss and lichen on a rock.”
― Laura Kate Dale, Gender Euphoria

“nd I’m so grateful to be able to look back at my childhood, and find this pocket of my memory filled with knowing I was safe, that I belonged, and I had a right to exist. Because these are the memories that were to become my tether once life began to pull me deeper and deeper into a world where safety and belonging were not things I was capable of achieving on my own.”
― Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

“Unseen University was used to eccentricity among the faculty. After all, humans derive their notions of what it means to be a normal human being by constant reference to the human around them, and when those humans are other wizards, the spiral can only wiggle downwards.”
― Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

“Shadrapar has no purpose, no function. It exists for itself only, its own downward spiral to oblivion. It exists only to imprison the minds of those who dwell within it, so that their world shrinks until it holds nothing but their own desires, and they fight to stop you showing what’s beyond the bars. So I called it the cage of souls, so they would understand.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Cage of Souls