Laura

“Maybe convincing yourself that you could never transition is a defense mechanism that enabled you to survive high school, family, work—but like most defense mechanisms, it wasn’t conscious, and like most defense mechanisms, it became a pattern you weren’t aware of, and then, like most defense mechanisms, at some point it stopped making your life easier and started making your life harder.”
― Imogen Binnie, Nevada

“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.”
― John Berger, Ways of Seeing

“A Man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.”
― Aleister Crowley

“Maybe living through it isn't the only hard part. Maybe being in the world afterward is also the hard part.”
― Casey Plett, Little Fish