44 Quotes by Kacen Callender

I just want to prove that I'm good enough, too. That I deserve it. It's kind of like proving that–I don't know, proves I deserve respect and love, too, even if no one else agrees with me. Even if no one else believes it.

I feel like I’ve been physically attacked. Like someone took control of who I am. Took that control away from me.

It could've been easy to say I was hurt because I'm trans, because someone singled me out for my identity, but there's something weird about that - something off, about suggesting that my identity is the thing that brought me any sort of pain. It's the opposite. Being trans brings me love. It brings me happiness. It gives me power.

The way we lived then, that’s how we thought we would live forever. We not for one second thought everything could change in the amount of time it takes for a single heart to stop beating.

It can be easier, sometimes, to choose to love someone you know won’t return your feelings. At least you know how that will end. It’s easier to accept hurt and pain, sometimes, than love and acceptance. It’s the real, loving relationships that can be the scariest.

But it took me a little longer to figure out that just because I love her, doesn’t mean it’s a good kind of love. It can be easier, sometimes, to choose to love someone you know won’t return your feelings. At least you know how that will end. It’s easier to accept hurt and pain, sometimes, than love and acceptance. It’s the real, loving relationships that can be the scariest” -Dad.

It’s easier, I think, to love someone you know won’t love you – to chase them, knowing they won’t feel the same way – than to love someone who might love you back. To risk loving each other and losing it all.

He’s created his bubble of privilege, where no one is allowed but people like him, and because of that he doesn’t understand the world around him – doesn’t want to understand the world around him, because it’s too scary for him, too challenging. I start to feel a little sorry.

The longer I sit here and sketch, the better my art becomes; and it helps to look at the people around me, instead of seeing who I assume them to be.