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The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne

The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza

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elio’s Quotes

“I’m not crazy for feeling this way. They’re crazy for trying to stop me. And if it’s the last time I ever get to feel joy again, I won’t let them have it.”
― James Brandon, Ziggy, Stardust and Me

tags: acceptance-of-oneself, homosexuality, lgbt-literature, life, ziggy-stardust-and-me

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“He looks at me. And smiles. "Just us remember?To the moon," he whispers.”
― James Brandon, Ziggy, Stardust and Me

tags: boys-in-love, jonathan-and-web, lgbt-literature, love, ziggy-stardust-and-me

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“Your imagination is your safe space, an escape pod to another dimension where you're free to be.”
― James Brandon, Ziggy, Stardust and Me

tags: imagination, safe-space

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“And I refuse to believe that a person’s path is set in stone. A person is more than where they come from.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

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“My dearest, darling Sidney,' There was nothing else. Only dead white paper, blank and meaningless. A comma, followed by nothing. Death summed up by grammar.”
― Alice Winn, In Memoriam

tags: feelings-and-emotions, life, love, rd16

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