Brooke Yanaga’s Reviews > Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told > Status Update

“At times, queer theory has made me feel less than, as if I’m too shortsighted to make out the horizon it paints. When I turn toward it, having been diminished by the state, the theory eludes me with its future tense…I feel not so much seen as evaluated. I am implicated by the very ideas that I agree with, because I can’t find a way to live them out. In theory, I’m a disappointment.”

“I had been rushing—to finish university one term ahead of schedule, to acquire this or that signifier, to derive opinions. Then you arrived and brought stillness. It oriented me.”

“Your silence was enough to make me see my nation as I think you saw it: proclaiming its wonder by violently pulling back a curtain, taking pride in a tenderness it took pulverizing to achieve.”

“Allow me to shuffle the cards that were stacked against us.”

“If I had asked you why you were coming, you’d probably have said: I can’t explain. It’s something you’d go on to say regularly. It is the beauty of you, it’s where the art is.“