Nova Scotia House Quotes

“It was queer magic that reached back through time, reached far into the future, it broke time, it broke the physical realm, it broke the constraints of what is considered normal, that awful world of conformity where really you just become a cog in the machine, where you are milked for profit, where your primary role is to consume and therefore be consumed.”
― Charlie Porter, Nova Scotia House

“We were already down and then we were kicked even harder. A life of being kicked.”
― Charlie Porter, Nova Scotia House

“It wasn’t queerness in opposition to straight people. It wasn’t about trying to find a place within straight society at all. It was queerness for and of itself, and it was fertile, creative, it was bounteous.”
― Charlie Porter, Nova Scotia House

“This was how you made community this is how you make community it is messy and it is alive.”
― Charlie Porter, Nova Scotia House

“each time someone conforms, every single time, they do damage, it may seem irreverent, it may seem nothing, but to conform is to eridicate”
― Charlie Porter, Nova Scotia House

“How lucky am I to have been born into this nightmare. This broken world, it does not give a damn about me I don't need it to. Does it give a damn about anyone or anything that's not the point. We can just do what we do everyday, to listen, to care, to be humble, to make. I am slightly tipsy I am grateful for it I would like to be drunk.”
― Charlie Porter, Nova Scotia House

“Friendship is often tempered jealousy.”
― Charlie Porter, Nova Scotia House

“This broken world, it does not give a damn about me I don’t need it to. Does it give a damn about anyone or anything that’s not the point. We can just do what we do everyday, to listen, to care, to be humble, to make.”
― Charlie Porter, Nova Scotia House

“Don’t dwell, Jerry would say, don’t hold on to what is gone, nostalgia is death, the past is boring, what about now.”
― Charlie Porter, Nova Scotia House

“I’m going to miss you, said Gareth.
Maybe you’ll breathe me in someday, said Jerry.”
― Charlie Porter, Nova Scotia House

“This broken world, it does not give a damn about me I don't need it to. Does it give a damn about anyone or anything that's not the point. We can just do what we do everyday, to listen, to care, to be humble, to make.”
― Charlie Porter, Nova Scotia House

“I was scared and I was scared.”
― Charlie Porter, Nova Scotia House

“Continuity”
― Charlie Porter, Nova Scotia House