Joe

“I have to live my life, and it is the only one I'll ever have. And you cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time...”
― Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I am a theatre kid. That means I'm desperate to be the best, desperate to please, desperate to never let anybody down. There is no room for failure, because failure equals weakness, which equals death.”
― Rachel Bloom, I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are: Essays and Other Stuff

“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

“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