Tamara✨

“I've been many things - bold, rash maybe, and lucky - but I don't think I've ever been really brave. Doing what you want, even if it's difficult or painful, that isn't brave. Doing what you have to do - however much it hurts, however much you hate it - that's courage.”
― Meg Clothier, The Girl King

“There ain't nothing wrong with being alone, which is what I am, or what I have been. It's when it turns to loneliness, when you get to feeling blue about it all, that you're in trouble. There's the problem, loneliness.”
― Jami Attenberg, Saint Mazie

“Everyone’s last wish turned out to be love: may I be consumed by the simplicity and purity of a love story, any love, base love or heroic love or transgressive love or love that is a blind and lame and ridiculous lie—anything the opposite of alone and lonely and sexless, and the absence of someone to care about or talk to.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Book of Joan

“Because a shadow was a thing that defined itself, and Nettie didn't have to fit anyone else's shape.”
― Lila Bowen, Wake of Vultures