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“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“To be in love is to be worldly, to be in connection with significant otherness and signifying ohers, on many scales, in layers of locals and globals, in ramifying webs.”
― Donna Haraway

“The here and now is a prison house. We must strive, in the face of the here and now’s totalising rendering of reality, to think and feel a then and there. Some will say that all we have are the pleasures of this moment, but we must never settle for that minimal transport; we must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds.”
― José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity

“L'enfance est un couteau planté dans la gorge.”
― Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies