tee (tinareadsthings)

“It is no surprise that so many women and girls have what are delicately called 'control issues' around their bodies, from cutting and injuring their flesh to starving or stuffing themselves with food, compulsive exercise, or pathological, unhappy obsession over how we look and dress. Adolescence, for a woman, is the slow realisation that you are not considered as fully human as you hoped. You are a body first, and your body is not yours alone: whether or not you are attracted to men, men and boys will believe they have a claim on your body, and the state gets to decide what you're allowed to do with it afterwards.”
― Laurie Penny, Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution

“You were the one who wanted to save the world,” he said, quietly. “I just wanted to save you.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Children of Fallen Gods

“I couldn’t speak, even though I wished I could. I wished I could weave words beautiful enough to capture this — the way that she made the past and the future seem, somehow, reconcilable.
She didn’t pull away, and I was grateful, because I wasn’t ready to let go. Perhaps I never would be.
I had always lived my life with one foot in the past, while Tisaanah relentlessly charged to the future. It was only here, when we were together, that we collided. It was only here that we stood still.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Children of Fallen Gods

“Awake or asleep, all I see is your face. All I hear is your voice. All I feel is you in my arms. All I want is you.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Traitor Queen