Little Fish Quotes

“Maybe living through it isn't the only hard part. Maybe being in the world afterward is also the hard part.”
― Casey Plett, Little Fish

“Wendy knew how to deal with looking cis and she knew how to deal with looking trans, but she would never, ever figure out how to be both. How the world could treat her so differently—within days or hours.”
― Casey Plett, Little Fish

“What kind of world does the core of your brain expect that you, you personally get to live in? Wendy wanted to be loved. However easily she might have abandoned or ruined her prospects, Wendy did still believe she would have love.”
― Casey Plett, Little Fish

“No she wasn’t any happier, no she didn’t feel any more like a real girl. But she was calmer now, like a small buzzing part of her brain had been turned off, and was now forever at rest.”
― Casey Plett, Little Fish

“Cis people always have timelines.

I mean, I know not every cis person has that life, but—what are the cis people in my life doing? What are they doing in your life? Versus what the trans people in your life are doing? On a macro level. Ask yourself that.”
― Casey Plett, Little Fish

“Here, here is my skin that feels like your skin, my muscles and frailties that feel like yours, the lift of your flesh something I intuitively know from my own body, inner maps that, for most of my life, I thought were purely shameful and mine alone. And here, with you, with me, for minutes, for hours, if nothing else—a line from a book Wendy couldn’t remember appeared to her in a slippery ripple of memory—If I loved you, this is how I would love you.”
― Casey Plett, Little Fish

“She was so, so tired of loving her people and them not loving her back.”
― Casey Plett, Little Fish

“What kind of world does the core of your brain expect that you, personally, get to live in?”
― Casey Plett, Little Fish

“Wendy wanted to love this old woman. She was so, so tired of loving her people and them not loving her back. Sometimes this made her angry. And sometimes, like now, she found it spookily easy to put her hurt and baggage on ice.”
― Casey Plett, Little Fish