The Measure Of A Good Book Is In The Eyes Of Its Reader. You Can Like A Book That Is Detested By Millions

You are not required to be small. You are not required to be pleasant. You are not required to be conventional. You are not required to be accommodating. You are not required to be submissive. You are not required to be merciful.  You are not required to be quiet.

─ Trista Mateer

the sun and moon are two women in love and two men in love as well and a man and woman in love and a woman and man in love and not in love at all and very good friends and exes and one person and every person and transgender and tragic lovers and resentful rivals

Every Renaissance drama:

Anaïs Nin, from “The diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. 3: 1939-1944”

— Mary Oliver, from section 4 of “The Return,” What Do We Know: Poems and Prose Poems (Da Capo Press, 2002)

𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝟻, 𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟸 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹