jood :D

“A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“She was a stranger because something essential was shielded, released in tiny bursts until it became a flood---a flood of what I realized I did not know. Afterward, I would mourn her as if she'd died, because something had: someone we had created together.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“When the historian of queer experience attempts to document a queer past, there is often a gatekeeper, representing a straight present.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art.”
― Lana Del Rey