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“As Brody gazes out into forever, I think about how the sea is not just one thing, and neither am I.”

“Many days, I feel like I am not queer enough, and there is a self-shame in that.”

“In The Ring, when the girl climbs up the well, her bones cracking out of place, bending behind herself, this is supposed to be a sign she’s to be feared and pitied and isn’t even human.
When I discovered, suddenly as a child, that I could do the same thing, joints twisting out of place and then aching, aching afterwards—when I discovered that myself, oh, it felt like freedom.”

“I can handle the neglect, but it’s the cruelty of it all that tips me toward the monsters’ side.”

“Hospitals are built on anti-sick architectures of thought, but not all sick people are equal in the eyes of the institution. Existing oppression proliferates.”

“What does it mean as a sick girl to learn again and again that sick girls deserve to be punished?”

“Kiss someone, fuck someone, think about fucking someone while kissing someone else. Let sex be unknowable, warm, thrilling, funny, erotic, terrifying; let sexuality be all strange currents and eddies and unknown vistas and treasures and teeth.”

“Sometimes bisexuality suits you, and you stay; sometimes it doesn’t and you keep moving; sometimes you return to it, surprised by your own capacity for mystery; but, at some point, you’ve crossed those waters.”