‘We as minoritised folks more broadly want outsiders to understand: there are a hundred ways to be.’
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‘Cho offers a lesson in how to write alongside the void…’
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‘I realise that my mind, this same mind, will only ever produce the same insights over and over, with varying degrees of clarity, as if I were new versions of a smartphone each time.’
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‘Any faithful reading of Cahier requires attention to more than one thing that requires reiterating; the book is uncontainable.’
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‘Acknowledging that the ‘truth’ in nonfiction writing is tricky and inherently interpretable subtly undermines the rigidity of mainstream publishing where such books must fall into specific categories.’
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‘There are stories out there we don’t know we’ll love and I think it’s a tragedy. It keeps our worlds small.’
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‘The poem may be expansive, in the sense of an expanding empire, a grab for territory, but there is precious little joyous about it.’
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‘This book, with all its horrors, distance and intensity is also a device I use to work out who—or indeed, what—it is that I love.’
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‘I am coming out as someone who does not read to get ahead of the narrative. I am coming out as someone who does not read as himbo representation. I am coming out as someone who does not read as an act of radical vulnerability.’
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‘In Pessoa, the fragment is his refuge from the prosaic tenets of plot, performance and character. That temporary tinsel in the shop window becomes an after-image sought by the imagination and worked over by thought to re-enchant everyday life.’
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‘Literature isn’t so far from real conditions: it is part of the process of reinforcing, resisting and reifying conditions. This is where any idea of an artist, separate and at odds with their total environment, begins to break down.’
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‘Granted, Lin was ahead of his time, but there is no future here.’
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‘As Said helped us understand, representations don’t just allow us to think a certain way; they also give us license to act in a particular fashion. To lose a self-image, then, is to forfeit a specific mode of inhabiting and engaging the world.’
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‘In its own way, each episode of HHI is fraught with background, cloaking the exuberant desire that once motivated the hunters’ odyssey to the other side of the world in the mundane fabula of kitchen dimension, bathroom quantity, and work commute distance.’
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‘…it’s easy to lose the emotion of history, and to forget how recent it all is. It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that what now seems unfathomable could, very easily, become reality again.’
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‘I was born with perfect shoulders. But when I moved to Philadelphia, they told me I had a chip on one, the size of “Australia”.’
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‘What role does love play in the making of revolutions and the articulation of revolutionary desire? Can love teach us to remain determined to leap from the world we inhabit to a future we desire?’
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‘Staying with the trouble is one thing, but sometimes I’d just like my heart to stop beating so hard.’
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