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“Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from the pinnacle of a tower into the air? Could it be, even for elderly people, that this was life?—startling, unexpected, unknown?”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“You ever wonder if this is Heaven now? You ever wonder if we're all just there now and we don't know it?

I've thought about that. All of us have. There's a lot less people who go to church than there used to be, because that's what a lot of people think.


But I don't think so. But I think about it. And I think, well, I can't be. Because I'm like you, I kinda look at the big long life ahead of me that stretches out forever and disappears. And I get scared. And I think, "this can't be Heaven if I'm getting scared, right?"

And then I think, "maybe I am in Heaven, and Heaven is scary.”
― Jon Bois, 17776: What football will look like in the future

“We do bones, motherfucker.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“I came of age in a culture where gay marriage went from comic impossibility to foregone conclusion to law of the land. I haven't been closeted in almost a decade. Even so I am unaccountably haunted by the specter of the lunatic lesbian. I did not want my lover to be dogged by mental illness or a personality disorder or rage issues. I did not want her to act with unflagging irrationality. I didn't want her to be jealous or cruel. Years later, if I could say anything to her, I'd say "For fuck's sake, stop making us look bad.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House