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“If you are expected to be monogamous and have one person be all things sexually for you, then you have to be whores for each other,' Savage says. 'You have to be up for anything.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

“I was surprised, at first, by her sadness. I had thought she felt only delight—but sadness, of course, was a feeling all of us have always known.”
― Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me

“Words change depending on who speaks them; there is no cure. The answer isn't just to introduce new words (boi, cisgendered, andro-fag) and then set out to reify their meanings (though obviously there is power and pragmatism here). One must also become alert to the multitude of possible uses, possible contexts, the wings with which each word can fly.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

“...writing is my only talent, and writing has always felt more clarifying than creative to me. But in contemplating this definition, I wonder if one might be creative (or queer, or happy, or held) in spite of oneself.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts