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41 " i remember you in the scent of smoke. i remember you in the taste of salt. i am afraid of changing my body, afraid to lose you&myself. and yet, you have always been with me. you have always been here. nd i am reminded that though the body of the ocean may change, though the waters may shift, the salt always remains. "
― Kai Cheng Thom , A Place Called No Homeland
42 " When you’re a child trapped in a situation of physical or psychological deprivation, you learn shame as an efficient, elegant mechanism of survival: shame simultaneously shields you from the reality that danger is out of your control (since the problem is not that you’re unloved and deprived; it’s that you’re Bad) and prevents you from doing or saying anything challenging that might provoke a threat. "
― Kai Cheng Thom , I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
43 " Honey, you hurt yourself,” she says, “because everybody around you hurts people and is hurting and that’s just the story you were given. You can’t get stuck in that. Don’t get stuck in any one story, not even your own.“That’s the difference between love and hunger,” she says. “Hunger is a story you get stuck in. Love’s the story that takes you somewhere new. "
― Kai Cheng Thom , Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars