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Style, like taste, is resistant to lucid definition; however, both, as living things should be, are subject to constant change.
“It takes a long time for white guys to appreciate that they are breakable. They do not live from birth with the daily fear that they might be attacked or detained or killed. Their bodies are not constant targets of power. Their bodies are power, so they throw those bodies up and down mountains and stairs and out of airplanes and into pointless online yelling matches for fun. They just presume they will survive.”
― Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms
― Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms
“There is no better life than a life spent laboring at love—exerting effort not because we have to, but because we believe that what we are bringing into being is valuable and we want it to exist. Yet because our culture tends to misunderstand the nature of labor and of love, we undervalue both.”
― Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating
― Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating
“It occurs to me that even though Zoya and I are both still alive, my life is already over. She will be taken from me soon and there will be no reason for me to continue without her. We are one person, you see. We are GeorgyandZoya.”
― The House of Special Purpose
― The House of Special Purpose
“I like good strong words that mean something…”
― Little Women
― Little Women
“My favorite kind of science fiction is post-apocalyptic dystopia. But I just heard at the bar that genre is going out of style. Frankly, that’s not a future I want to live in.”
― Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms
― Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms
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