Be Gay, Do Crime Quotes

“She wanted, at the very least, to feel beautiful; at the very least on this last ride, which would never be repeated, she wanted to feel beautiful so she could relax enough to experience a romance while it was happening, rather than in retrospect, rather than losing the instants to her fear that from this or that angle, Sandy would think she looked like a man, which would ruin his love for her once and for all, because she had failed to maintain in every second and from every angle the necessary proof of her womanhood, because if she looked like a man even once, she thought, he would never entirely see her as a woman again, because no matter how beautiful she became, he would never forget the moment when he first glimpsed—with, she imagined, a kind of disgusted pity—the man-failure counterfeiting himself as a woman, humiliatingly, named Peach.”
― Aurora Mattia, Be Gay, Do Crime: Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos

“The state of the world was beyond repair, and yet, the buses still ran on time.”
― Molly Llewellyn, Be Gay, Do Crime

“Cars rolled by out the window like water. A highway is another way to outrun”
― Molly Llewellyn, Be Gay, Do Crime