Zefyr Lisowski > Quotes

“In the summer after my father died, I spent days unable to get out of bed. I had vivid nightmares of monstrous women lurching out of televisions or crammed into attics, bones cracking out of place. I had nightmares that I was monstrous too. I thought these dreams were further punishment, a reflection of who I had become. But now I wonder how much the things that scare us are always trying to form their own communities too.”
― Zefyr Lisowski, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

“I asked my mother what she prayed for. It wasn't an end to her pain, as I or the countless well-wishers had assumed. She wished for just one thing, day after day, night after night: That her daughter wasn't afraid when she died.”
― Zefyr Lisowski, Uncanny Valley Girls: A Memoir-in-Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love – From the Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry

“If you care enough about a person, after all, you can ignore almost any belief they hold. If you're devoted enough, a friend and a lover are nearly the same thing.”
― Zefyr Lisowski, Uncanny Valley Girls: A Memoir-in-Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love – From the Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry

“In The Ring, when the girl climbs up the well, her bones cracking out of place, bending behind herself, this is supposed to be a sign she's to be feared and pitied and isn't even human.
When I discovered, suddenly as a child, that I could do the same thing, oh, it felt like freedom.”
― Zefyr Lisowski, Uncanny Valley Girls: A Memoir-in-Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love – From the Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry