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August Thompson

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Laconia, NH, The United States

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August Thompson is from the middle of nowhere, New Hampshire, and has lived in Los Angeles, NYC, Berlin, and Madrid. His debut novel, Anyone’s Ghost, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Prize, longlisted for the Center For Fiction Debut Novel Prize and named a best book of the year by Amazon, Vogue and Elle. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times Magazine and beyond.

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Anyone's Ghost

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Troubling Love

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“I would give anything to change the nature of the world, even if I could change it just for you.”
― August Thompson, Anyone's Ghost

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“We can take it slow; we can move fast. You can leave me and come back. You can be exactly who you are or you can be what you've always wanted to be. You can sell that gold twisted band, and we can find a studio in Queens, and I can cut your hair every other month. Let's live off rice and beans, oranges when they're in season. Let's make friends and forget them for days and weeks at a time. Let's ward off all of the terror with talk. Let's make love over and over, until our ribs hurt and we think we're tired of it, then do it once more, just to see if there's still life to be made.”
― August Thompson, Anyone's Ghost

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“It’s all here, it’s now if we want it to be. Time, distance, they’re no longer the problem. The problem is courage. The courage I need and the courage you want. We can find it in each other, I swear. I swear, if you’ll just let me show you.”
― August Thompson, Anyone's Ghost

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“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

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