Daniel Allen Cox > Quotes

“My strength couldn’t have come from self-knowledge because I remained a mystery to myself. I had no queer role models to tell me things would be all right on the outside. The letter could only have been a feeling: a desperation, a soul leak, a horniness for a future that made sense.”
― Daniel Allen Cox, I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness

“Leslie Jamison points out in her essay “Does Recovery Kill Great Writing?”: “If you needed to drink that much, you had to hurt, and drinking and writing were two different responses to that same molten pain: You could numb it, or you could grant it a voice.”
― Daniel Allen Cox, I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness

“Bell. I signed an employment contract and told my partner, which sealed our breakup.”
― Daniel Allen Cox, I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness

“I started building a theology of queer tenderness. Nerve endings don’t split on ridges of good and evil. Pleasure cascades down both sides.”
― Daniel Allen Cox, I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness