Aaron

“I found myself taking more risks, because failure had a second life — it could spin a yarn. There was an agency in the retelling, in the self-deprecation and of course self-mythologizing. Memoir is how you groom yourself. Memoir is drag.”
― Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

“Kill me," he rasped at Clear Sky. "Kill me and live with the memory. Then tell the stars that you won.”
― Erin Hunter, The First Battle

“the queer archive is ‘fragile from fear and forgetting, too often written in whispers and saved in scraps.”
― Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

“If Gray Wing thinks he’s going to take us by surprise, then he can think again! We’ll be ready. He halted and stared between the trees. Beyond, the moor rose like a spine arching against the setting sun. You want battle? He pictured Gray Wing training his cats to fight. I’ll give you war.”
― Erin Hunter, The First Battle