Joe

“When I got outside, I felt pains in my crotch, I had held my legs together so tight trying to make that woman understand. But I reckon now she couldn't understand. She married a man with a slash in his face instead of a mouth. So how could she understand?”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“Both Iris and Reese had a sense of themselves as trans elders; despite only being in their late twenties, they were, in trans age, much older than even that trio of just-out forty-somethings sitting together on a checkered blanket.”
― Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“There's this phenomenon that you'll get sometimes - but not too often, if you're lucky - where someone you think you know says something about your gayness that you weren't expecting at all. Ben called it a tiny earthquake. I don't think he was wrong. You're destabilized, is the point. How much just depends on where the quake originated, the fault lines.”
― Bryan Washington, Memorial