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“Maybe it was the converse of the way amputees feel pain in a missing limb. He really was there all those years, a flesh-and-blood presence streaming off the wallpaper, digging up the dogwoods, polishing the finials... smelling of sawdust and sweat and designer cologne. But I ached as if he were already gone.”
― Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
― Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
“There is no justice in following unjust laws.”
― The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz
― The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz
“Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“I watched that imaginary father grow old and die, watched him soften into a body yielding itself to fate, listened to his whispered deathbed chatter, heard how much he wanted me to understand, as he did, that the world could be beautiful anyway.”
― Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man
― Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man
“Growing up, you know, I slowly had this process of realizing, that all the things around me that people had told me were just the natural way things were, the way things always would be, weren’t natural at all! They were things that could be changed and they were things that, more importantly, were wrong and *should* change.”
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Flying_one’s 2025 Year in Books
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