She laughed to solidify the part she was playing. But deep down, her soul wilted.

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This wasn’t about becoming someone I wasn’t, but about stepping into a version of myself that could handle everything the sport demanded— on and off the track. And it paid off.

But I think body shape and size is all about athletics — what you can do with your body. How you use it in the world to live and function better and more intentionally every day.

You can use those claws of yours all you wish. Can’t you tell I’m not going anywhere?

It is bold to see the life you wish to live and take it.

Cats are rarely troubled by the things humans fret over, which apparently included the end of the world, and I found myself comforted by her insouciance.

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Mind your manners, but always, always ask questions if you have them. Good people don’t mind questions.

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When you are ten, shame stitches itself into you like a monogram, broadcasting to the world what holds you, what rules your soul.

I’d sooner defend the image of me as a hideous, withered hag, rather than the image of me as coy, quiet, sexualized teenaged girl. It’s appalling that I was trained to behave the way I was when I was younger, and I think of it as a societal betrayal, and a depraved way to treat girls.

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Miscommunications are for the straights.

Earlier, she’d felt a stirring from watching him wrap a present, for crying out loud, which she told herself was only because she found extreme competence a turn-on.

I don’t think being okay means avoiding anyone who might test your version of okay. Sometimes the okay boundary changes. You have to fucking step into it. You have to find your okay again. And again and again. Until we die. Welcome to being human.

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