“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 Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache” PainHumilitySorrowClint CatalystMichelle TeaThea Hillman Book:Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person Source: Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person
“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" from the anthology Pills, Thrills, Chills and Heartache” AgingEditorsQueerAnthologyLgbt LiteratureFirst Person NarrativeExperimentalClint CatalystMichelle Tea Author:Clint Catalyst and MIchelle Tea