Mara

“Isla cleared her throat. “Um, how exactly does one go about making friends then?”
― Sienna Waters, The Hotel Inspector

“What people didn’t get about being a trans girl was how much it was about your body. How you just wanted to look like a girl. To be able to walk through a door and not seem like a boy in a dress, to not stand out,”
― Naomi Kanakia, Just Happy to Be Here

“The fact that London would always be surrounded by people who either didn’t approve of their identity or didn’t understand their identity was not a fact that could simply be ignored. London could push it away in order to exist. But it was always lurking in the shadows, making London on guard for how they should act, what they should say in front of other human beings.”
― Anita Kelly, Love & Other Disasters

“The real question is why it matters to people. Do we really need proof, like in our genes, or our brains, or anything else, to be who we are? Why do we need certification of it, or whatever? The only person who can tell you who you are is you.”
― Jennifer Finney Boylan, Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us