Sam

“(I loved her name. I couldn't help it. I would release a worm to write her name in every angular gyrus from here to Thailand. I would convert her name to salts, to textures, to the image of a fern in biosonar. I had never heard a name so beautiful, though it was not a name that suited her - it was far too soft a name for her precise young features - and though I thought it much the lovelier when sharpened by my Leningrader accent.)”
― cameron reed, The Fortunate Fall

“We are shaped not by what is strong in us but by the anomaly, by whatever is weak and not accepted.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium

“I can’t help but think back on the feathery flatness of my owl-lover’s embrace, and to compare my two great loves. My owl-lover had a manly lack of mammaries, but otherwise she was all woman. I used to love the way she could flex her feathers separately, moving her feathers across my skin like a thousand soft feather-fingers.”
― Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

“Ich wollte kein Gegenstand sein, ich wollte ein Mensch sein und gross; und gross zu sein, bedeutete, ein Geschlecht zu haben, ein männliches. Als Frau drohte einem, ein Gegenstand zu bleiben oder ein Ozean zu werden. Das wollte ich nicht.”
― Kim de l'Horizon, Blutbuch