Arimi Reads

“I think as much as you can, follow your heart and trust your gut instinct because that's going to help you gauge how you approach your family and your friends. Be realistic. Hope for the best, but at the same time understand that not everyone might be okay with you in the beginning or further along. But trust your gut and be true to yourself because that is what is going to get you through the good times and the bad.

And talk to the man in the mirror, or the woman in the mirror, or the whoever the fuck you want to be and are in the mirror!”
― Emma Goswell, Coming Out Stories - Personal Experiences of Coming Out from Across the LGBTQ+ Spectrum

“Only come out when you are good and ready.”
― Emma Goswell, Coming Out Stories - Personal Experiences of Coming Out from Across the LGBTQ+ Spectrum

“She’d wanted me to tell her that I loved her. That she’d done good. That she was good. She’d wanted to be seen and understood by the person best positioned to see and understand her. My heart, already broken, had felt as if it were leaking out: had she imagined, in her last breath, that I didn’t love her?”
― Sarah Langan, Squid Teeth: A Tor Original

“I just wanted to fit in.”
― Emma Goswell, Coming Out Stories - Personal Experiences of Coming Out from Across the LGBTQ+ Spectrum