Andrew Clark

“Most of the night is a blur.
What I remember: everything is loud and fast and thrilling.
What I remember: the three of us dancing, jumping around and twisting our bodies with abandon. The reflections of the disco ball like a million pieces of colored glass.
What I remember: Shawn coming up behind me, his sweaty skin sliding against mine, his voice low in my ear, Baby.
What I remember: Annie, laughing, pulling me onto the dance floor and spinning me around like I was the girl.
What I remember: feeling breathless and joyous and invincible. We loved the city, we loved each other.”
― Carter Sickels, The Prettiest Star

“He was not so much surprised as he was struck by how impossible it was to ever gauge how a person existed in their skin, the way the world pressed down on them, the exact shape and weight of the pressing.”
― Carolina De Robertis, The President and the Frog

“We go out to be gay. We crave this when once again growing bored with the straight world”
― Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

“He’d heard people say talk was cheap, but that wasn’t true. Talk was magic, it turned the world, it was power when you knew how to fuse it with what mattered and pull your actions taut inside it like arrows.”
― Carolina De Robertis, The President and the Frog