Tonyne

“Expectations cage us. What other people expect. What we think they expect. What we expect of ourselves. The rules that we think are unbreakable.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Warbler

“Drag shows were supposed to be a place where we were safe. A place where we could escape their hate and love ourselves. But they don’t want us to love ourselves, not even behind closed doors.”
― Alison Cochrun, Here We Go Again

“When a community is built on removing access to information—from disempowering its people—there is no one to save them when a bigger threat rises. The first civilizations to fall are the ones where no one speaks truth to power, where every voice must be part of a chorus or be silenced.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“the future is, by its very nature, unwritten. We can spin it any way we want. Which means promises are nothing but hopeful lies.”
― Faith Gardner, The Spin