4 Quotes by A.R. Capetta

A government that cannot handle criticism cannot handle governing.

Understanding rustled through me, soft as leaves. It wasn’t quite the same, but I’d often felt I didn’t fit inside the boundaries of the word girl. It reminded me of a country I could happily visit, but the longer I stayed, the more I knew I couldn’t live there all the time. There were moments when I sorely wished to be free of the confines of this body, the expectations it seemed to carry.

Now that I was a boy words flowed out of me with no obstruction. As a girl I'd had to swallow at least half of what I wanted to say. Being allowed to speak my mind felt like running wild down a mountain slope. I might fall and break myself on the rocks at any moment, but for now all I felt was a heady rush.

Alone was the note that Cade knew best. It was the root of all her chords.