Mateo

“How do you know when a shoe doesn't fit quite right? It covers your foot and it's better than nothing at all, because you're not getting burrs stuck in your heel when you walk, and no shoe is perfect. Maybe if you just wear thicker socks, it'll feel right. Maybe all shoes are bad and you just need to accept it and stop complaining that your feet hurt." Kie grinned, shaking kir head. "And then one day you take the shoe off and try on a different one and it's like you're seeing sunshine for the first time. And you realize shoes can be comfortable, you were just wearing the wrong one.”
― Ana Mardoll, No Man of Woman Born

“It is within our differences that we are both most powerful and most vulnerable, and some of the most difficult tasks of our lives are the claiming of differences and learning to use those differences for bridges rather than as barriers between us.”
― Audre Lorde, The Selected Works of Audre Lorde

“What if it had been the act of loving— the moving through life while loving, the way of seeing myself while loving, the splendid shapes love makes of the world, the way it takes the mundane and twists it into something altogether worthier?”
― John Paul Brammer, Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons

“I walk on the ground and the ground’s walked on by me, I breathe the air and change it, I am entirely interconnected with the world.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven