Teddy

“Conform or die. That was his motto. I am oddly doing bits of both, each half-assedly.”
― Rivers Solomon, An Unkindness of Ghosts

“I didn't know why it made my heart sing loud to itself that a stranger thought I was a boy. It just did. Made me feel like he could look inside me and see some part of the truth of me in there.
But it did make me inexplicably sad that a stranger could see me, and my own family could not.”
― Ivan E. Coyote, Tomboy Survival Guide

“People do not know what to make of me, and this pleases me. I don't want to be scrutable.”
― Rivers Solomon, An Unkindness of Ghosts

“As it turns out, being right was the third, and worst, mistake.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties