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41 " I don't come from the past, I come from now, here in the cauldron of plague. When the doors to the camps were finally beaten down, the Jews of Europe no longer came from Poland and Holland and France. They came from Auschwitz and Buchenwald. But I will never understand how the straights could have let us die like this - year after year after year, collaborating by indifference - except by sifting through the evidence of my queer journey. "
― Paul Monette , Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
42 " That as long as I kept them apart, love would be sexless and sex loveless, endlessly repeating its cycle of self-denial and self-abuse. "
43 " So I told myself I would give it up, even prayed at night for it to be taken away, not knowing that ‘it’ was love. "
44 " I liked being adrift in symbols, beauty for beauty’s sake. "