Armando Zertuche

“I was just a confused kid who’d learned the vocabulary of being gay from a world that hated fags.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, Brave Face: A Memoir

“Like an open book

I long to tell you the story of my whole life.
I want to show you my innermost like an open book so that you can read it.
Anything that you want.

I want to be perceivable and … that you can perceive me.
I want to be comprehensible, like a mathematical formula you can solve, even if I cannot solve myself.

I long for you to solve me. I long for you to read me like an open book.
Anything that you want.

[…]

I long for you to tell me the story of your whole life.
I want you to show your innermost like an open book, so that I can read it.
Anything that I want.
I want to make you perceivable and … that I can perceive you.

I want to make you comprehensible, like a mathematical formula I can solve, even if you cannot solve yourself.

I long for us to be solvable. That we show each other our innermost, like an open book.
Anything that we have ever wanted.”
― Dahi Tamara Koch, Within the event horizon: poetry & prose

“He wrote because he liked to write; he did not abridge, because he cared not to abridge. He sat down, he took pen and paper, because he loved Lucy and had much to say to her; because he was faithful and thoughtful, because he was tender and true.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“There weren't as many layers between her and the world as there were with the rest of us.”
― Renée Knight, Disclaimer