Justin Morlock

“I have a terrible crush on him and get very excited and idiotic when he shows me affection. So of course in the midst of everything, the state of the world being what it is, humanity on the cusp of extinction, here I am writing another email about sex and friendship. What else is there to live for?

Love always, Alice.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“To hope, which finds roots in the most infertile of soils.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“Of course, the dream outran the reality, as it always does.”
― Kevin Starr, Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915

“Homosexuals are... widely consigned to the same category of things as drugs, the category of illicit dirty things that people have to be protected from... since the homosexual is continually taught by the world around him that his natural home is the sewer, the homosexual is uniquely equipped to discover what truly belongs and doesn't belong in the sewer.”
― Gary Indiana, Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story