Missed Connections With Tall Girls is, first and foremost, a book about being homeless and broke.

What if you found an identical version of yourself somewhere in the outside world, and you stopped at nothing to find her?

It's one thing to show idealized images of past figures; it's another to make them feel real

All in all, The Flowers I Deserve is an enthralling, sexy but simplistic fairytale, devoid of the edges and stakes missing from the author’s previous works.

The anger around people using new words to describe themselves has nothing to do with the word itself, and everything to do with who gets to be understood.

The tools of academia can be used for joyful things- rather than just for reinforcing or changing the system. They can reflect the joy of, for example, “Barking and Ripping Things up and Just Freaking it.”