They Were Here Before Us Quotes

“She thinks of how there’s an invisible expiration date stamped on the forehead of every queer person—how most of society, even other queer people, expect you to wither away, to languish in torment and eventually expire from some incurable illness as if it were proper contrition for your perversity.”
― Eric LaRocca, They Were Here Before Us: A Novella in Pieces

“Though she might have once loved me—might have cared for me, nurtured me the way I had hoped, the way I had dreamed and wanted—that opportunity was now decidedly nonexistent, considering the fact that she was dead and had been dead for several weeks when my parents first stumbled upon her corpse in a shallow ditch not far from a busy motorway.”
― Eric LaRocca, They Were Here Before Us: A Novella in Pieces

“she knows full well that any room with a bed in it is a place where a young woman can be hurt.”
― Eric LaRocca, They Were Here Before Us: A Novella in Pieces

“Ican still so distinctly recall the moment when it first happened to me: the crucial, soul-defining moment when I realized that I loved her and loved her in such a way that I understood I could never fully possess her as I had always intended.”
― Eric LaRocca, They Were Here Before Us: A Novella in Pieces

“She despised me for my insect-like callousness, my uncaring attitude, my willingness to allow her precious child to be devoured right between her legs.”
― Eric LaRocca, They Were Here Before Us: A Novella in Pieces

“After all, she knows full well that any room with a bed in it is a place where a young woman can be hurt.”
― Eric LaRocca, They Were Here Before Us: A Novella in Pieces