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“My deepest emotional relationships have always been with women. Did that mean I was a lesbian? But my sexual fantasies involved two male partners. Was I a gay boy tapped in a girl's body? The knowledge of a third option slept like a seed under the soil.”
― Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer: A Memoir

“As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape. Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they can flourish and grow. Between the ocean and the mountains is a wild forest. That is where I want to make my home.”
― Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer: A Memoir

“At home in Albuquerque, I can sense the mountains, all the time. Like even when I'm not looking at it, I feel it. It's always there, in the east. Like a wall at my back, holding me up. Steadying me. If I'd been born here instead, maybe the ocean would be like that for me. Maybe I'd always feel the water churning in the west.”
― Shannon C.F. Rogers, Eighteen Roses

“It seems truer to say that friendship is just hard. It requires radical honesty.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People