Jasper

“I wanted to explain myself to myself in an understandable way. I gave shape to my fears and made excuses. I varied my velocities, watched myselves sleep. Something's not right about what I'm doing but I'm still doing it-- living in the worst parts, ruining myself. My inner life is a sheet of black glass. If I fell through the floor I would keep falling.
The enormity of my desire disgusts me.”
― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

“The world doesn't know what to do with my love. Because it isn't used to being loved. It's a framework problem.”
― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

“I am listening to what fear teaches. I will never be gone. I am a scar, a report from the frontlines, a talisman, a resurrection, a rough place on the chin of complacency.”
― Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light

“If I'm more of a toy to be wound up than a man, can I write beautiful things?”
― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body