Mara

“I’ve worked so hard just to be accepted for all the things I already know I am. I don’t want to add anything else to the list.”
― Katia Rose, Turning Back

“Marcie, you don’t need to read books. It’s just a bad habit for introverts.” Marcie shook her head silently while Laura went on. “Beautiful girls like you don’t need to read,” she said.”
― Ann Bannon, I am a Woman

“Hey, I was thinking of you, and so here are some plants that will die soon.”
― Sofi Keren, False Starts & Artichoke Hearts

“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