- If I should have a daughter ... by Sarah Kay
“..rain will wash away everything, if you let it. I want her to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind, because that's the way my mom taught me. That there'll be days like this.” - "To This Day" ... for the bullied and beautiful by Shane Koyczan
“..if you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror, look a little closer, stare a little longer, because there's something inside you that made you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit.” - “21” by Patrick Roche
“Fifteen, I come up with the theory that my father started drinking again because maybe he found out I'm gay. Like if he could make everything else blurry, maybe somehow I'd look straight.” - “Somewhere in America” by Belissa Escobedo, Rhiannon McGavin, and Zariya Allen
“They build us brand new shopping malls so we’ll forget where we’re really standing – ON THE BONES of the Hispanics, ON THE BONES of the slaves, ON THE BONES of the Native Americans, ON THE BONES of those who fought just to speak.” - “Explaining My Depression to My Mother” by Sabrina Benaim
“Mom says happy is a decision but my happy is as hollow as a pin pricked egg. My happy is a high fever that will break. Mom says I am so good at making something out of nothing and then flat out asks me if I am afraid of dying, no Mom I am afraid of living”
