Iara

“Knowledge is not seeing the visible; knowledge is seeing what lies behind it: the invisible. It is knowing the internal nature of objects.”
― Adonis

“But how does the Absolute become part of something that is other than itself and yet remain itself? The answer to this is that it does not become part of something else but rather that the other manifestation is a part of itself, is itself. The goal of the Absolute in revealing itself in existing forms is not to light up existence so much as to light up the absent and unknown. But it is revelation that allows the setting up of an order of correspondences that place man on the path of mysteries and guide him to the keys that will open them.”
― Adonis

“Your friendly smile of acceptance - from the safe position of heterosexuality,' " Jane reads aloud, " 'isn't enough. As long as you cherish that secret belief that you are a little bit better because you sleep with the opposite sex, you are still asleep in your cradle... and we will be the nightmare that awakens you.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“It's hazy but she remembers Jane telling her about drag shows she used to go to in the '70s, the balls, how queens would go hungry for weeks to buy gowns, the shimmering nightclubs that sometimes felt like the only safe places.
She lets Jane's memories transpose over here, now, like double exposed film, two different generations of messy, loud, brave and scared and brave again people stomping their feet and waving hands with bitten nails, all the things they share and all the things they don't, the things she has that people like Jane smashed windows and spat blood for.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop