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“Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?”
― The Graveyard Book
― The Graveyard Book
“A man who loves another man does not matter because he is not a man—and his paintings and his poems and whatever he thinks or says or feels do not matter. That is what people believe. But those are lies, and I do not believe any of those lies. So I became an artist and a poet so I could paint and write the things that mattered—even if they only mattered to me. And that is the only thing that matters.”
― Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
― Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
“It’s not wrong,” Celia said. “It shouldn’t be wrong, to love you. How can it be wrong?”
“It’s not wrong, sweetheart. It’s not,” I said. “They’re wrong.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“It’s not wrong, sweetheart. It’s not,” I said. “They’re wrong.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I feel so frightened of being hurt – not of the suffering, which I know I can handle, but the indignity of suffering, the indignity of being open to it.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“I sit, with all my theories, metaphors, and equations, Shakespeare and Milton, Barthes, Du Fu, and Homer, masters of death who can’t, at last, teach me how to touch my dead.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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