Ahmed, Sara

"Justice requires a different orientation."

"The line between human and nonhuman is not fixed."

"We must learn to inhabit discomfort."

"Affect is not private; it is shared."

"The world is full of things that touch us unexpectedly."

"We are all orientated by forces beyond our control."

"Happiness is not about getting what you want."

"The body is a site of knowledge."

"We must attend to the ordinary, to the everyday."

"Racism is about orientation, about who belongs."

"The straight life is a lived fiction."

"We are all implicated in structures that harm others."

"Orientation is about promise, about potential."

"The child is a becoming, not a being."

"We must be willing to be undone."

"Happiness requires attending to others."

"The world is a matter of surfaces and depths."

"We are shaped by what surrounds us."

"Affect is what moves us forward or holds us back."

"Justice requires us to change our orientation."

"We are all queered by the world."

"The line between subject and object is permeable."

"We must attend to the margins."

"Orientation is a matter of becoming, not being."

"The body remembers what the mind forgets."

"We are all dependent creatures."

"Happiness is a matter of how we are oriented toward others."

"The world makes us legible in certain ways."

"We must learn to move differently."

"Affect is what makes us stick to things."