Erica

“When we die our argument dies with us. The argument we never articulated well enough, that we were failed by our parents, and the schools, and the state. The cause of death is the missing safety net.”
― Stephen Elliott, The Adderall Diaries

“We are carrying contraband words with us, memorized, tucked away in tattered journals and stored magically on disks in Anna's left pocket. Canadian words, queer words that we spoke on-stage for money in the land of the brave. With no valid permit, license, visa or contract to do so. Felons, really, all of us, and now we intended to flee the scene without paying income tax on the twelve dollars and fifty American cents we each made. It's just this kind of shameless law-breaking that gives all poets a bad name.”
― Ivan E. Coyote, Boys Like Her: Transfictions

“She had expected a pistol to seem light and natural-a seamless extension of her angry feral self.”
― Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories

“She's the stuff that lava is made of, not rain.”
― Anna Camilleri, Boys Like Her: Transfictions