lillian horton

“She runs her hands over her hipbones and her ribs, stark even under her nightgown, and she thinks about how crazy she was not to appreciate it. How stupid she was all her life not to eat the French Fries and vanilla Cokes. As if her slimness and beauty were the most valuable things she could ever own.”
― Julie Cohen, Louis & Louise

“But when Lou is born, their biological sex is the first thing that anyone sees... The beginning of every choice made about this person, even before they have the power to make choices for themselves. At this moment of birth... Lou Alder is the nexus of all their parents' dreams. But those dreams are different for son and for daughter.”
― Julie Cohen, Louis & Louise

“all we have is people, people with their messy indefinites, their changes and inconsistencies, their desires and fears, their acts that echo down the years and change the world.”
― Julie Cohen, Louis & Louise

“I think it best we went our separate ways, and that those paths never crossed again.”
― Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age