“And for a reason he still did not understand, he began to cry. Love plain, simple, and so fast it shattered him.”
― Home
― Home
“For minutes on end he could not tell whether he was really hearing howls of pain, or whether it was simply that his years of long, exhausting work had rendered him incapable of distinguishing between the general noise and ancient prehistoric screams that were somehow preserved in time ('the evidence of suffering does not disappear without a trace,' he hopefully remarked) and now were being raised by the rain, like dust.”
― Satantango
― Satantango
“How long do we have to just survive? When will we be able to live rather than just focus on surviving?”
― Earthlings
― Earthlings
“The moment of queer pride is a refusal to be shamed by witnessing the other as being ashamed of you.”
― The Argonauts
― The Argonauts
“There is time on this greener earth for girls to ripen into themselves; what they'll do with that is beyond anyone's knowing, seeing as they are not limited to anger versus dinner, seriousness versus sentiment, survival versus all life's rampancy. They can choose.”
― Land of Milk and Honey
― Land of Milk and Honey
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