Between Certain Death and a Possible Future Quotes

“Now I think about how much shutting off was required, just to exist in day-to-day experience. You couldn’t express shock at everyone dying right in front of your eyes, because shock felt like a form of cruelty. So you would act like everything might be okay, even when nothing was okay.”
― Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis