Maren Oksienik

“A beginning,’ she said, ‘often signals an end. That’s the thing with dawn…you must first get through the night.”
― Juno Dawson, Her Majesty's Royal Coven

“We make art to leave a mark for the future, a slight kink in the river of stories, which flows too fast and too wildly for any of us to comprehend.”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

“Helena’s life is so fucking cushy that she has all the time in the world to muse on the potential theoretical, philosophical, academical ramifications of trans lives. Theo just wants to fuckin’ be. Don’t quite seem fair, does it?”
― Juno Dawson, Her Majesty's Royal Coven

“Words are like birds,” says Mr. Bradbury. “When you publish books, you are setting caged birds free. They can go wherever they please. They can fly over the highest walls and across vast distances, settling in the mansions of the gentry, in farmsteads and laborers’ cottages alike. You never know whom those words will reach, whose hearts will succumb to their sweet songs.”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky