Shannah

“There’s a whole thing we’ve been taught about not seeking validation from a man, not letting someone tell us something about ourselves. But men have been telling me things all my life—that if I don’t keep my legs closed, I’m going to end up desecrated; that I’m a slut, a whore, a broken thing. And it’s not that Tristan is a boy, telling me something new. He’s erasing the things that have been pressed into me like fingerprints.”
― Tori Bovalino, My Throat an Open Grave

“Grief is like a well: you can never truly leave it but the walls grow wider and wider until one day you look up and realise that you can see the sky again.”
― M.A. Kuzniar, Upon a Frosted Star

“Sometimes friends became family too. The family you chose to have when your lives cosied up against each other’s as if you’d always been there.”
― Maria Kuzniar, The Ship of Shadows

“She wanted a world where girls did not need to grow a spine of steel just to survive. Where they could be as soft and silly as they wanted. Where they could walk into a room full of new people and see endless possibilities instead of potential threats.”
― C.L. Herman, The Deck of Omens