the way to beat back the darkness and the danger is to be more yourself, to break more soul-squashing rules, to be as queer as you need to be. The heroes of horror stories are often the oddballs and the weirdos

Nightmare Magazine, Issue 37 (October 2015, Queers Destroy Horror! Special Issue) [Amazon, Publisher]

Hermetic quote Nightmare Magazine Issue 37 break soul-squashing rules be as queer as you need to be heroes oddballs weirdos

Consider also:

  1. “The whole Rebellion was a highly illegal action bordering on treason, sweetheart,” he reminded her. “When the rules don’t work, you break ’em.”
  2. “I don’t think anyone ever goes into a war without the nagging feeling that there might have been some other way. Even when every other way has already been tried and hasn’t worked.”
  3. Omnium Gatherum: 2may2021
  4. I Follow Rivers
  5. “rules were against rights and rights against rules, and a ghost in the fire was a ghost in the street, and the thing that had been was the thing that was to be and it was coming, was coming; what was coming; what but herself?”