Mike C

“Why are you looking at me so dramatically?” “I don’t know,” I say. “Isn’t that what you do when you kiss someone?”
― Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much

“The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.”
― Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams

“So much can fit into one human heart. Each of us can be, if we get lost, a little ark of vast demons ferried from life to life.”
― Patrick Nathan, The Future Was Color

“I also explained to this activist how ironic it was that Abu-Seif and I, as queer Palestinians, were being asked by a non-Palestinian to censor a film about queer Palestinians because of the solidarity activist’s belief that the film is pinkwashing and does not “properly” capture the experience of queer Palestinians. The empire of critique has reached a point at which activists feel entitled to serve as arbiters of which queer Palestinian voices should be considered the most authoritative and archetypical.”
― Sa'ed Atshan, Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique