Marianna

“I was excessively afraid of being defined as a woman before I was seen as myself.”
― Nagata Kabi, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

“But this world where I showed up with my half-made-up persona was a kinder place.”
― Rin Usami, Idol, Burning

“Words are a medium that reduces reality to abstraction for transmission to our reason, and in their power to corrode reality inevitably lurks the danger that the words themselves will be corroded too.”
― Yukio Mishima, Sun & Steel

“Most days I felt like a total fraud and I was convinced it was only a matter of time before everyone figured it all out. Even on days when I did do my best work, I still felt like I was faking my way through it.”
― Roz Weston, A Little Bit Broken: A Memoir