Kaitlyn Rode

“Second, that you can have both love and freedom when you fall in love with an exotic local in an exotic locale, since there is a return ticket next to the bed that you by law will eventually have to use.”
― Kristin Newman, What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding

“There is something almost religious about the call of the sea, the connection we feel that transcends the mundanity of daily existence. It
simultaneously reminds us of our smallness and our interconnected-
ness. It awakens within us the eye of the artist, the voice of the poet,
the soul of the mystic. It reignites an awareness that beyond this lies
something vaster. The water, pulled by the moon, ever-moving but
ever-remaining, seems to speak to something elemental within us in
ways we can barely find expression for, yet find ourselves driven to
try, nonetheless. It has inspired storytellers, artists and musicians of
many cultures and genders throughout history. The sea sings through
us…if we let her…as we in turn channel ourselves through her.”
― Lucy H. Pearce, She of the Sea

“The greatest thing about vacation romances is you don’t have to break up, or say hard things to each other about what you are or aren’t feeling. You don’t have to talk about what isn’t working, or why. You get to just tell yourselves that it would have lasted forever if not for the geography. You don’t have to break up. But”
― Kristin Newman, What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding

“Are you gay, Cherie?
Me, No… I’m not anything… I-I mean I prefer not to indulge, I stammered.
“Really... how do you mean?”
Well love has been an elusive story, like a fairytale adults tell children but I have never known any of it to be true. In reality it reminds me of religion. I am not sure God is real either, if God is real why do so many innocents suffer?
Innocents suffer because it is their destiny to suffer.
What? What does that mean?” I’m annoyed.
God has nothing to do with it. We are born into this world to experience all that is not God-like, so we can then be inspired to reach for higher spiritual goals.
I have never thought of it that way before. If that is so then I must be preparing for sainthood. Am I to think that all of my suffering as a child has been to prepare me for greatness?”
― Darwun St James, Angel Sins