| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d4f094c | "Sorrow is humbling. I want my pain to be fabulous. I don't need my pain to be worse than anyone else's; I just want it to be strangely, uniquely mine. Art to someone else's breakdown. -- Thea Hillman, "Dear Kath After" from the anthology " | pain sorrow thea-hillman michelle-tea humility | Clint Catalyst Michelle Tea Thea Hillman | |
| 7348c85 | "I felt old. Again. It had been happening a lot lately. I did not live the life of an old lady, but I could hear it beckoning to me, like a mermaid on a rock." -- Michelle Tea, "Paris: A Lie" | anthology clint-catalyst editors experimental first-person-narrative lgbt-literature michelle-tea queer | Clint Catalyst and MIchelle Tea |