Love After the End Quotes

“Your circle is not round. All beings require more than one tide. Even desert animals live underwater.”
― Joshua Whitehead, Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

“Sometimes, when it’s the apocalypse, you have to just do things for yourself.”
― Joshua Whitehead, Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

“Watch those in power carefully.”
― Joshua Whitehead, Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

“feel Migizi shake their head. “Kinship is a two-sided coin, Nigig. You always gotta ask yourself, who is being excluded here?”
― Joshua Whitehead, Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

“Love is part of Kinship laws—it is the Kinship laws. Of course in reality Kinship is just as much about hating each other and messing each other up as it is about loving each other, but without Love there wouldn’t be any Kinship at all.”
― Joshua Whitehead, Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

“I ask, “How do we build a relationship with this new planet?” She laughs. “I would assume like all consensual relationships: we ask them out.”
― Joshua Whitehead, Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

“In the north, we were hit with wave after wave of refugees from the rapidly growing deserts and work camps. For a time, the wall of bureaucracy kept out everyone but the wealthy and the truly desperate. When that failed, our government let go of its tight-lipped politeness. They began with the indirect murder of thousands via returned refugee ships and denied claims, then came out into the open with the visible murder of families torn apart at borders and the mass incarceration and enslavement of the undocumented.”
― Joshua Whitehead, Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

“soon learned that she believed in the creation of and adherence to complex systems. I was hungry for chaos.”
― Joshua Whitehead, Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

“We need only ask, humble ourselves, and be unafraid to ask for help in times of need, for us to receive exactly what it is we need.”
― Joshua Whitehead, Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

“Two-Spirit and Indigiqueers are the wildest kinds of biopunks, literally and literarily.”
― Joshua Whitehead, Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

“What does it mean to be Two-Spirit during an apocalypse? What does it mean to search out romance at a pipeline protest—can we have intimacy during doomsday?”
― Joshua Whitehead, Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

“centuries ago, people were more likely to prepare for the end of the world than attempt to save it”
― Darcie Little Badger, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

“Humans aren’t animals. You’re meant for more than survival.”
― Darcie Little Badger, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction