“I knew how to be alone, had studied the manner deeply, knew all the shadings of aloneness, and even spent considerable time alone within each of my relationships, but I was afraid to be alone.” LonelinessTransgender Book:I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition Source: I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
“Night is the permanent revolution, that of the globe. Every sundown the streets change, becoming sinister or libidinous, or, for that matter, longer or narrower or unexpectedly twisted. The familiar rebels against those who presume to know it. The map is altered and time is telescoped. Daylight restores things to their normal condition, or is that really their normal condition? The map of the city wrinkles and unfolds, wrinkles and unfolds.” NightFearChangePerceptionNycMetropolitan Book:Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York Source: Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York