Chiona

“The here and now is a prison house. We must strive, in the face of the here and now’s totalising rendering of reality, to think and feel a then and there. Some will say that all we have are the pleasures of this moment, but we must never settle for that minimal transport; we must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds.”
― José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity

“I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me.”
― Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

“Ich dachte, dass man sich von aufgeplusterten Abschieden nicht ins Bockshorn jagen lassen darf, dass man ihnen sehr wohl von der Schippe springen kann, denn solang keiner stirbt, ist jeder Abschied verhandelbar.”
― Mariana Leky, Was man von hier aus sehen kann

“Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar