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#1

“Ellwood knew there was a quotation for this particular, painful speechlessness, but it did not come to him. All his words were gone. There was something surging gloriously in his chest, and he had no way to express it.”
― Alice Winn, In Memoriam

tags: gay, gay-lit, lgbt, queer, queer-lit, war

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#2

“I'd plotted, as a child, to give my life to the Lord. In college, I'd lost this faith. Isolated, grief-wild, I'd picked through the ruins He'd left behind. If I could still love this orphan world, deprived of His salvific light, which parts of it might even I, broken as I came, find worth prizing?”
― R. O. Kwon

tags: broken, exhibit, growth, life, religion, ruins, spirituality, world

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#3

“. . . how artful bodies will be, retelling old stories.”
― R. O. Kwon

tags: art, body, dance, exhibit, old-stories, stories, story

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#4

“In the afterlife I won't find, I'll sit with all the people I've lost, and we'll laugh at the prodigals we used to be. Once, long ago, we split apart. No such thing will happen again.”
― R. O. Kwon

tags: afterlife, death, exhibit, friendship, life, love, prodigal, spirituality

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#5

“I used to think there was such a thing as emptiness, that there were places in the world one could go and be alone. This, I think, is still true, but the error in my reasoning was to assume that alone was somewhere you could go, rather than somewhere you had to be left.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

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#6

“The deep sea is a haunted house: a place in which things that ought not to exist move about in the darkness.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

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#7

“It is easier, I think, to consider the fact of us in its many disparate pieces, as opposed to one vast and intractable thing. Easier, I think, to claw through the scatter of us in the hopes of retrieving something, of pulling some singular thing from the debris and holding it up to the light.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

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#8

“He wanted to make him bleed, and then tend to the wounds.”
― Alice Winn, In Memoriam

tags: bleed, love, love-quotes, queer, queer-fiction, queer-lit, violence

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#9

“He felt as if he had shed something, some weight he had not known he carried. [ . . . ] A knot of tangles in his heart was unsnarling, and things were much simpler than before.”
― Alice Winn, In Memoriam

tags: gay, heart, lgbt, love, love-quotes, queer

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#10

“He hadn't realized until the real Gaunt materialized how far his memories had strayed from the original.”
― Alice Winn, In Memoriam

tags: gay, love, memories, memory, war

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#11

“In my heart, sometimes, I feel a lightness, a nonexistence. . . I have these moments, very dangerous, I feel scattered. But I'm here, and I feel like telling you the rest. Not because you'll get it, but because I feel like telling it.”
― Dionne Brand, What We All Long For

tags: history, life, literary-fiction, queer-fiction

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#12

“Heaven has eyes. Heaven punishes.”
― Dionne Brand, What We All Long For

tags: heaven, life

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#13

“What she was sure about was that this love was steady and deep enough to create itself over and over again.”
― Dionne Brand, What We All Long For

tags: life, love

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#14

“Instead of considering my eternal salvation, I picked at my filthy fear as a hungry man picks a fowl's carcass.”
― Maria McCann, As Meat Loves Salt

tags: fear, gay, queer, salvation

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#15

“I wanted to lie still with him and let him know he was as welcome to me as myself, burrowing into him in the safety of the darkness.”
― Maria McCann, As Meat Loves Salt

tags: darkness, gay, love, queer, welcome

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#16

“I dressed slowly, waiting for my soul to seat itself back in my body.”
― Maria McCann, As Meat Loves Salt

tags: life, soul

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#17

“My body feels like it's going to crack open.”
― Carter Sickels, The Prettiest Star

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#18

“[. . .] sometimes you have to go back to the place you left. [. . .] To understand who you've become.”
― Carter Sickels, The Prettiest Star

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#19

“There is still too much of me.”
― Carter Sickels, The Prettiest Star

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#20

“Our bones know each other, they come from the same place.”
― Carter Sickels, The Prettiest Star

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#21

“For some of us, the world is never forgiving.”
― Dionne Brand, What We All Long For

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#22

“The poetry of holding the soul together.”
― Dionne Brand, What We All Long For

tags: poetry, soul

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#23

“She had overused these memories, wrung everything from them.”
― Dionne Brand, What We All Long For

tags: memories, memory

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#24

“I'm a rope. A rapidly fraying, unraveling rope. How much is left? What happens when it runs out?”
― P.J. Vernon, Bath Haus

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#25

“I can't escape from myself any more than I can crawl out of my own skin.”
― P.J. Vernon, Bath Haus

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#26

“And there's no pain worse than deciding to live. Ripping your thumping, beating self out from clamped jaws--that kind of hurt doesn't stop with scar tissue. Maybe it dulls as decades pass, like folks say, but the pieces of flesh you leave behind never grow back.”
― P.J. Vernon, Bath Haus

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