“All those layers of silence upon silence.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“Pleasure activism is the work we do to reclaim our whole, happy, and satisfiable selves from the impacts, delusions, and limitations of oppression and/or supremacy.”
― Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
― Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
“Pleasure is not one of the spoils of capitalism. It is what our bodies, our human systems, are structured for; it is the aliveness and awakening, the gratitude and humility, the joy and celebration of being miraculous.”
― Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
― Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
“And the nights, bigger than imagining: black and gusty and enormous, disordered and wild with stars.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky - so the space where I exist, and I want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
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