Unspoken Norm Quotes

“It’s the binary of normative/transgressive that’s unsustainable, along with the demand that anyone live a life that’s all one thing.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

“It was easy for me to understand this language of blood, pain, and creation that begins with physical substance itself when one is a woman.”
― Carmen Laforet, Nada

“I’m not on my way anywhere, Harry sometimes tells inquirers. How to explain, in a culture frantic for resolution, that sometimes the shit stays messy?”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts