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"i hate henry! i dont like how dorian treats basil!! this is really making me feel sad already :(
BUT the writing style, the prose is so good. I love it! Only a book written so well can evoke and make us feel things very intensely!!" — Sep 27, 2025 04:56PM
"i hate henry! i dont like how dorian treats basil!! this is really making me feel sad already :(
BUT the writing style, the prose is so good. I love it! Only a book written so well can evoke and make us feel things very intensely!!" — Sep 27, 2025 04:56PM

“I killed a plant once because I gave
it too much water. Lord, I worry
that love is violence.”
― Citizen Illegal
it too much water. Lord, I worry
that love is violence.”
― Citizen Illegal

“I tried to ask my parents to leave the room,
but not my life. It was very hard. Because the room was the size
of my life. Because my life was small.
[...]
Raising one’s voice in a small space
felt at once godlike & childish.”
―
but not my life. It was very hard. Because the room was the size
of my life. Because my life was small.
[...]
Raising one’s voice in a small space
felt at once godlike & childish.”
―

“and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?”
―
―

“He wants to set himself on fire, but he can’t afford for anyone to see him burn.”
― Red, White & Royal Blue
― Red, White & Royal Blue

“What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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