Sara

“No," replied Blue. "But I can take a message."
This, she felt, had been her role in life so far.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“The whole business of what’s reality and what isn’t has never been solved and probably never will be. So I don’t care to be too definite about anything. I have a lot of edges called Perhaps and almost nothing you can call Certainty.”
― Mary Oliver, Blue Horses

“At first these messages might seem trivial, but compounded over time, they become serious. Depending on whether we call them a boy or a girl, we assign each a narrative-we tell some children that they are strong, and we tell others that they are weak. We tell some children that they can express themselves, and we tell others that they should not have feelings (...) And we tell the kids who don't fit into our categories that they are wrong. We tell them that they are not real.”
― Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

“Now she was finding that there were some things she could only do when there were no excuses left.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle