Theo

“She'll be honest regardless of whether anybody gets hurt, which is hard when you've spent your whole life like, I don't care if I get hurt, if this repression hurts me, I just can't transition and hurt my mom that way, or I can't upset my father's standing in our quiet little community that way. It is second nature, or maybe just her nature, for Maria to put other people ahead of herself.”
― Imogen Binnie, Nevada

“Are you positive you aren’t a man?” he would ask anxiously, and she would echo, “Can it be possible you’re not a woman?” and then they must put it to the proof without more ado.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“Nora will leave that girl some day; but though those two were buried at opposite ends of the earth, one dog will find them both.”
― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

“Henri Matisse once said, “It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.”
― Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman