Jocelyn Thomas

“One of the most important discoveries wa that 'six cylinders had sex appeal.' The man or woman behind the wheel had a particular allure that was not lost upon the opposite sex.”
― Cynthia Golomb Dettelbach, In the Driver's Seat: The Automobile in American Literature and Popular Culture

“Lonliness evaporated off of them like the steam off dry ice, and by morning it was just a cloud on the ceiling of the room, then gone with the light. ”
― Christopher Moore, A Dirty Job

“This is why you should never mess with nonconfrontational people. Because they’re too unstable to second-guess. And because they’re totally the kind of people who could suddenly snap, and stab you in the face with a fork.”
― Jenny Lawson, Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

“...gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself...what they imitate is a phantasmic ideal of heterosexual identity...gay identities work neither to copy nor emulate heterosexuality, but rather, to expose heterosexuality as an incessant and panicked imitation of its own naturalized idealization. That heterosexuality is always in the act of elaborating itself is evidence that it is perpetually at risk, that it, that it 'knows' it's own possibility of becoming undone”
― Judith Butler