Sana Rashid

“We’re all products of the people who’ve loved us, ma’am. At least, that’s my opinion on the matter. We’re also formed by the people who didn’t love us. Sometimes it makes us hard, or heedless, but I don’t believe anyone’s ever finished becoming themselves. If that makes any sense.”
― Lydia Drake, Cinderella and the Duke

“To have spent my life holding my hands in tightly hidden fists. To try to understand what it would mean now to hold them open. I have always felt ashamed at being witnessed in the act of wanting something I could not have”
― Jennifer S. Cheng

“I haven’t had the easiest path I have been dared to survive That is when others look at you And wonder how you are still alive Because folks they know have been through much less And lost their minds at the first digress I can’t say I am winning but I can say I am here I am trying with every breath to survive every year I may not be successful but at least I have my voice Which hasn’t been stifled yet Give me a moment I will catch a flame I will burn brighter than you have ever seen burn brighter”
― C. Churchill, Wildflower Tea

“Did you know that when a female fly
accepts the pheromones put off by a male
it rewrites her brain, destroys the
receptors for pheromones?
Sensing the change,
the male fly does the same.
When flies love each other,
they do it so hard
that they can never love
anything else ever again.
If either one dies before procreation,
that is the end of both sets of genetic code.
Now that is dedication.”
― Jared Singer, Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction