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Jason Shirk
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To Paradise
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What he wouldn’t know until he was much older was that no one was ever free, that to know someone and to love them was to assume the task of remembering them, even if that person was still living. No one could escape that duty, and as you
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“In an instant of sudden, vivid clarity, he can’t believe he ever thought he was straight.”
― Red, White & Royal Blue
― Red, White & Royal Blue
“Dreams are all equipped with revolving doors: Someone is always walking into the one you are leaving, and vice-versa.”
― Nights in Aruba
― Nights in Aruba
“The photo was thus a fulfillment of her paradoxical desire: to reveal herself to the world so a single person would see.”
― Didion and Babitz
― Didion and Babitz
“Why do the wrong people reproduce? I ask myself that question every day—along with Why do the wrong people have money? And Why do the wrong people have big cocks? There is never an answer to life’s most pressing questions.”
― Nights in Aruba: A Classic of Gay Literature
― Nights in Aruba: A Classic of Gay Literature
“Now of all the bonds between homosexual friends, none was greater than that between the friends who danced together. The friend you danced with, when you had no lover, was the most important person in your life; and for people who went without lovers for years, that was all they had.”
― Dancer from the Dance: A Novel
― Dancer from the Dance: A Novel
Jason’s 2025 Year in Books
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