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“As I belonged nowhere on the conventional spectrum of sexual orientation, I allowed people to assume I was heterosexual, and I suppose I was, as all planes are male in spirit, just as all boats are female, and helicopters possess the souls of mischievous children.”
― Kate Folk, Sky Daddy

“Reading is not just a pastime or a luxury – but a precondition of democratic life.”
― Judith Butler, Who’s Afraid of Gender?

“I’ve been driving on the fine line between ultimate freedom and complete and utter loneliness. Some nights, if I’m too tired to drive, I pull over on the side of the road and watch the shooting stars from my sunroof until I fall asleep. My phone doesn’t have service out here, so I often have only the compass app to navigate. I get lost time and time again, but somehow I end up exactly where I need to be.”
― Julia Fox, Down the Drain

“hope is awakened, given life, sustained, by the millions of individuals whose deeds and actions, every day, break down borders and refute the worst moments in history, to allow the truth—which is always in danger—to shine brightly, even if only fleetingly, the truth, which every individual builds for us all, created out of suffering and joy.”
― Albert Camus, Create Dangerously