Maddie Lee

“And I think this is how I would most like to imagine romance, friends, or should I say lovers. In praise of all my body can and cannot do, I wish to figure out how it can best sing with all of yours for a moment in a room where the walls sweat. I wish to lock eyes across a dance floor from you while something our mothers sang in the kitchen plays over the speakers. I want us to find each other among the forest of writhing and make a deal. Okay, lover. It is just us now. The only way out is through.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

“Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.”
― Gerard Way

“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita