Brittany Nailon

“You were you and I was me and there was this thing between us.”
― Gus Moreno, This Thing Between Us

“What if everything was natural? What if there was no wrong or right action in terms of who you loved, who you wanted, or who you were drawn to? If the will of the universe was the will of the universe, and if everything was happening as it was, then wasn't everything you could possibly do all right?”
― Melissa Broder, The Pisces

“A person is laid bare in the badlands. Eons of erosion carve the world down into its basic element: dust. There is no hiding here, even from ourselves.”
― Taylor Brorby, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land

“And Sternberg had been right: in the end, the worst thing about the badlands was the dust. Harshly alkaline, it billowed up with every stab of pick and shovel; it burned the eyes, stung the nose, caked the mouth, caused coughing spasms; it burned in open cuts; it covered clothes and chafed at elbows and armpits and backs of knees; it gritted in sleeping bags; it dusted food, sour and bitter, and flavored coffee; stirred by the wind, it became a constant force, a signature of this harsh and forbidding place.”
― Michael Crichton, Dragon Teeth: A Novel