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“When the fire started, we rang the alarms, but no one listened. It wasn’t their fire, they said. They watched us burn and laughed.”
― Blair Fell, Disco Witches of Fire Island

“there’s nothing wrong with being an amateur. The word itself comes from the Latin “amare,” which means “to love”…to do something just for the love of it.”
― Jenny Lawson, How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay

“Natalie’s like a border collie, my mother used to say to the other women at church. She needs a project, otherwise she starts chewing the cabinet corners. Are you saying my son is a project? I imagined Doug saying. No, I imagined my mother replying. I’m saying he’s the cabinet corner.”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“I’m part white, part Black, part Japanese, part Pakistani, and all bisexual,” he said. “Just reaching for the very, very low-hanging fruit when it comes to the history of those latter population segments, I give you slavery, Japanese internment, colonization, and chemical castration. All, at some point, legal and accepted—and how? Because a lot of men claimed the right to sit around a table and bring exceptionally evil things into practice, while pretending to be polite, civilized, and moral human beings. Boards, committees, legislatures”—Beau’s hand encompassed all of them, and more—“can be the ultimate gaslighters and normalizers of the inhumane.”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library