Ezra

“They want you thinking you're bad at being a girl instead of good at being yourself. They want you to buy your blush from a store instead of letting it bloom from your butterflies. They're telling you to blend in, like you've never seen how a blender works. Like they think you've never seen the mess from the blade.”
― Andrea Gibson, Take Me With You

“I ask you about being happy the same way my high school friends ask me about being gay. 'So what do you people do exactly? I mean, how do you do it?”
― Andrea Gibson, Take Me With You

“When the first responders entered the Pulse Nightclub after the massacre in Orlando, they walked through the horrific scene of bodies and called out, "If you're alive, raise your hand." I was sweeping in a hotel in the midwest at the time but I imagine in that exact moment my hand twitched in my sleep – some unconscious part of me aware, that I had a pulse. That I was alive.”
― Andrea Gibson

“Little victories are everything in a world where worst-case scenarios are on an endless loop in your head.”
― Sara Barnard, A Quiet Kind of Thunder