"In this pause, I suddenly saw something very clearly. Whatever it was I wanted from my mother was simply not there to be had. It was not her fault. And it was therefore not my fault that I was unable to elicit it." - Alison Bechdel, "Are You My Mother?" #BookWormSat #PrideMonth

"Let us honour if we can The vertical man, Though we value none But the horizontal one!" - W H Auden [Pictured, right, with Christopher Isherwood] #BookWormSat #Pride #PrideMonth #poetry

"Only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell." - Truman Capote, 'Other Voices, Other Rooms' #Pride #BookWormSat

Because we two who never did them harm, And never dreamt of harm ourselves, find men So eager to perplex and alarm And scare from us our dove-like thoughts, well then Since 'twixt the world and truth must be our choice, Let us seem vile, not be so, and rejoice. - M A Raffolovich #Pride #BookWormSat

#BookWormSat “It’s a chance in a thousand we’ve met, we’ll never have the chance again and you know it. Stay with me. We love each other.” E M Forster - Maurice

"We can be an army of two. We can be Plato's perfect army: lovers, who will never behave dishonorably in each other's sight, and invincible. Let the world either kill us or grow accustomed to us; here we stand". Isabel Miller 'Patience & Sarah' (1969) 🎨 Catherine Opie '2 of ❤️❤️' (1995) #BookWormSat

"Thy crown doth sear mine eyeballs and thy hair, Thou other gold-round brow, is like the first. A third is like the former. Filthy hags! Why do you show me this? A fourth. Start, eyes. What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?" - The parade of ghostly Kings before Macbeth #BookWormSat

#BookWormSat “How extraordinary the vigilance and activity of the king and duke was, ever labouring in person, and being present to command, order, reward and encourage workmen ...” John Evelyn Diary Entry 1666 - King Charles II & Duke of York help tackle the Great Fire of London 🎨Unknown Artist

“I am a spirit of no common rate, The summer still doth tend upon my state” Titania, queen of the fairies, asserts her authority over her otherwordly court (and everywhere else) 👑 'Midsummer Night's Dream' (1594-1596) #BookWormSat