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Book cover for Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
Wherever I have lived in North America, I have been sold a story about an unlimited horizon and the personal characteristics that are required to waltz toward it. It is the language of entitlements. It is the careful math of deserving, ...more
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Sarah Kendzior
“Gentrifiers focus on aesthetics, not people. Because people, to them, are aesthetics.”
Sarah Kendzior, The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior

Virginia Woolf
“Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?”
Virginia Woolf, Orlando
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Virginia Woolf
“There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.”
Virginia Woolf, The Years

Virginia Woolf
“No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.”
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Tilly Lawless
“You may think these streets are yours to walk, but they belonged to someone else before: the queers, the hobos, the junkies, the trannies, the prozzies - those streets were theirs before they were yours so be careful, you may find you have to wipe your shoes clean before going into your nice apartment.”
Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

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