Sarah

“We’re the Backstagers. To them we’re out of sight and out of mind. Set pieces show up on stage, props end up on their right spots, the curtains open, the lights come on…

…in their heads it’s just simple stuff. And they don’t want to know any different. They don’t want to know how weird and dangerous it is back here. There’s a magic to the stage. Everyone who’s ever been on one knows that…but backstage…that’s where the real stuff is. The raw stuff that nobody ever thinks about.

Or thanks you for.

…or really ever appreciates.

…they just don’t get us, y’know?

It’s our job to bring all of that magic to life. The backstage is full of secrets and weirdness, but it’s also the only place where we’ve ever felt at home.”
― James Tynion IV, The Backstagers, Vol. 1: Rebels Without Applause

“The World Under the Lake isn’t just holding the parts of myself and my history I don’t want to think about, it’s holding the ways I adapted and lived. "Sometimes you can’t separate the hard things from the good things.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Lakelore

“...I saw you were becoming more you. It's only your outside that changed. I didn't lose anyone.”
― Lewis Hancox, Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure

“We go forward. To the rest of the world we vanish, but to each other we’re seen.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Lakelore