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The Rose That Grew From Concrete

by Tupac Shakur

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Ariel: The Restored Edition by Sylvia Plath

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I do not want much of a present, anyway, this year. After all, I am alive only by accident.

Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You

by Sofie Hagen

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“Why do you have to prove anything to anyone?"
"It's just how it is, how it's always been. In order for them to let me be a brujo—"
"You don't need anyone's permission to be you, Yads”
― Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys

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“Your
comfort
is not
more
important
than
my journey
to healing.
- I will never live a life of quiet again.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Drink Coffee with a Ghost

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“Exhale her ghost and watch her spirit rise to some High Heaven nestled in the stars. Imagine not this grace as her demise, but freedom!”
― Zach Payne, In Search of Sunflowers: A Year of Sonnets, Volume 1

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“Queer folks are like wolves,” Julian told him. “We travel in packs.”
― Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys

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“See, the problem in this world ain’t sinners, or even the dead. It is men who will step on anyone who stands in the way of their pursuit of power.”
― Justina Ireland, Dread Nation

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