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“At home in Albuquerque, I can sense the mountains, all the time. Like even when I'm not looking at it, I feel it. It's always there, in the east. Like a wall at my back, holding me up. Steadying me. If I'd been born here instead, maybe the ocean would be like that for me. Maybe I'd always feel the water churning in the west.”
― Shannon C.F. Rogers, Eighteen Roses

“It is very trying to be friends with someone who's right all the time.”
― Melinda Taub, The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch

“Art is edited truth — edited to give it shape, rhythm, speed and punch. I've quoted the Communist dictum before: "If it isn't art, it isn't propaganda." Art is skill in the service of passion.”
― Stephen Sondheim, Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics, 1981-2011, With Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes, and Miscellany

“The clearest metaphor I had for my own gender identity in college was the image of a scale. A huge weight had been placed on one side, without my permission. I was constantly trying to weigh down the other side. But the end goal wasn't masculinity - the goal was
b a l a n c e.”
― Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer: A Memoir