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“Four years after my father's death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation i would relate the information in a flat, matter-of-fact tone eager to detect in my listener the flinch of grief that eluded me.”
― Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?”
― Aaron Swartz

“My mother must have bathed me hundreds of times. But it's my father rinsing me off with the purple metal cup that I remember most clearly. The suffusion of warmth as the hot water sluiced over me...
...the sudden, unbearable cold of its absence.”
― Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic