Geraldo Mayhan

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Geraldo’s Quotes

“He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: achilles, beautiful, love, patroclus

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“أرى الهناء في كل مكان ، وأجدني وحدي المحروم منه بلا أمل في نيله . لقد كنتُ خَيّراً وطيبا ، ولكن التعاسة جعلت مني شيطانا . أسعدني وأنا أعود فاضلاً مرة أخرى

صدقني يا فرانكشتاين ، لقد كنت خَيّراً . وكانت روحي تتألق بحب الإنسانية ولكن ، ألست وحيداً الآن ، وحيداً إلى حد التعاسة ؟”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“When you attempt a memoir, I am told, you need to be in an orphan state. So what is missing in you, and the things you have grown cautious and hesitant about, will come almost casually towards you. "A memoir is the lost inheritance," you realize, so that during this time you must learn how and where to look. In the resulting self-portrait everything will rhyme, because everything has been reflected. If a gesture was flung away in the past, you now see it in the possession of another. So I believed something in my mother must rhyme in me. She in her small hall of mirrors and I in mine.”
― Michael Ondaatje, Warlight

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“During these weeks there was a quality about Miss Amelia that many people noticed. She laughed often, with a deep ringing laugh, and her whistling had a sassy, tunefull trickery. She was forever trying out her strength, lifting up heavy objects or poking her tough biceps with her finger.”
― Carson McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories

tags: butch, classic, queer-lady

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“pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy . . . , indicated by five (or more) of the following: 1. An exaggerated sense of self-importance . . . 2. Preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love 3. Believes that he or she is “special” and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people . . . 4. Requires excessive admiration 5. Has a sense of entitlement . . . 6. Selfishly takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends 7. Lacks empathy 8. Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her 9. Shows arrogant, haughty, patronizing, or contemptuous behaviors or attitudes”
― Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

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