Kelsie

“We had the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“And there was nothing in my eyes. Or even worse -- nothingness. Not the presence of a thing but the presence of a non-thing.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

“At the level of high culture with which this book is concerned, active bigotry is probably fairly rare. It is also hardly ever necessary, since the social context is so far from neutral. To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.”
― Joanna Russ, How to Suppress Women's Writing

“Tiring because he felt prematurely the weight of carrying how stupidly fucking sad this was for the rest of his days.”
― Brian McGreevy, Hemlock Grove