T. Fleischmann > Quotes

“If the aliens do show up, I hope they’ll see people they want to save. Friends and magnificent sluts, smashing the walls of the prisons and burning all the money, running around with signs that declare our liberation. Our hands up in the air and then down again, like some people in love. Our hands taking from two stacks of paper, “Nowhere better than this place” and “Somewhere better than this place.” Just a small part of the relentlessness of people in love, finding ways to make pleasure through all time. With losses that are shared and that no one else knows. I guess that’s what the story is. A story of bodies that are different, of people who fuck up and make each other happy and then die. Where everything is impossible and so we try to make it real. Where it’s spring, and the season of ice has passed.”
― T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

“Anyway, you never get there, you just keep going. Things are repeated, and sometimes we mistake the fact of their repetition for their value. It can make it seem like we aren’t supposed to change, or like our love has to be just so. It can make it seem as though what we know is best, which it only sometimes is. But maybe that’s okay. Even when imagining takes us away, it still begins with what’s already here.”
― T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

“Empathy connects us beyond our physical form. It feels like the unhinged body— like a slight, warm sadness, at seeing two clocks set to the same time, and knowing they slowly tick apart.”
― T Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

“The best version of me isn't the person who falls in love, but the person who takes love squarely for what it is, as an occasion to know someone else, to learn about their desires, to be each a better self together, so long as that is what we both want. To hell with all that hurt, whatever came before. We can have a love where we are both happy, in which we see ourselves for who we are–standing there, where any story might begin.”
― T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

“But I do know what it means to be unfixed from narrative, an unfixing that feels something like claiming power.”
― T Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

“You can learn the world from the people wearing the silliest clothes.”
― T Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

“Is beauty panacean, able to instill in us moments of transcendence?
Or does the sun just melt the ice, beauty appreciated only when it is the constituent hum of a thing that fades?”
― T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through