Evelyn

“You must always be yourself, no matter what the price. It is the highest form of morality.”
― Candy Darling, Candy Darling: Memoirs of an Andy Warhol Superstar

“Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression.
Isn't there some other way to look at this? After all, angst of these dimensions is a luxury item. You need to be well fed, clothes, and housed to have time for this much self-pity.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“Queer' not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.”
― bell hooks

“We talk about books in language that connotes permanence, solidity, the ability to change worlds and lives. And certainly that's sometimes accurate. But not most of the time. I would even argue an overwhelming majority of the time.

When we talk about books in ways that connote ephemerality, un-lasting-ness, a feeling gone before you can name it, stuff that disappears and doesn't change any worlds, lives...that's what the majority of books do. It's still beautiful. And we kid ourselves, saying otherwise.”
― Casey Plett