Aidan

“The past is still with us; the revolutions of the queer future beckon.”
― Huw Lemmey, Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

“The anecdote is surely recognisable
to all of us who, as a joyful child, unknowingly overstepped the barriers of
gender presentation, and were greeted without mercy by the regime that
enforces them with its most potent weapon, shame.”
― Huw Lemmey , Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

“As they carried along and met more people Furlong did and did not know, he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another? Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, the decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there and yet call yourself a Christian, and face yourself in the mirror?”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“It seemed both proper and at the same time deeply unfair that so much of life was left to chance.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These