The racial imbalance in New York City’s foster care population was also mind-boggling: out of forty-two thousand children in the system at the end of 1997, only thirteen hundred were white, though a majority of the city’s children were
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“I imagined I must not speak, in order to preserve, impossibly, my chance to speak. I nearly wretched on the feelings I forced myself to swallow.”
― Sealed: An Unexpected Journey into the Heart of Grace
― Sealed: An Unexpected Journey into the Heart of Grace

“Maybe confusion is as queer as it gets.”
― Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much
― Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― My Sister's Keeper
― My Sister's Keeper

“When I say Queer love, I mean love that makes its own rules. Love that exists without borders and thrives without clean lines. Love that creates more space than it takes up.”
― Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much
― Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

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