Ember White

"this place beside pain but not in pain"

Reading Detransition, Baby is like hunting for croutons in a salad, but you're also trying to gain 150 pounds.

"Sometimes the wonder over the object of a crush is indistinguishable from the simple relief that you are still able to leap into one at all."

Sometimes i think im alone when i see emotions turn into scientific words like "dissociate." There, in that experience, you have tragedy, you have beauty to find, narrative and art, and to simplify it all under one mass-produced word is to kill that emotion and potential for all the good that comes from the bad; it is to reduce it to a no, to a stop, to a minor annoyance of others who suggest to not over-complicate things; ghosts live in the past, yes, but wounds scar in the future, and bodies keep the score.

"Many people think a trans woman's deepest desire is to live her true gender, but actually it is to always stand in good lighting."

"The past is past to everyone but ghosts."

I got called ma'am going into the corner store by a guy outside asking for cigs. I got called a gay faggot on the way out by same guy.

After ive made my millions making shitty airport fiction and the disturbing thought of not spending enough time with my wife and kids starts to hit, you realize its time for the 4th tequila. Life does not truly begin until the 4th tequila.

"The dream reveals the reality, which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life—the terror of art."