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Better the Devil

by Erik J. Brown (Goodreads Author)

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In Cold Blood

by Truman Capote

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read in June 2013

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Douglas Gibson said: " Read this for the first time about 10 years ago, re-read it this month for book club. Not only still holds up to the test of time, but holds up on a second read! "

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The Secret Public: How Music Moved Queer Culture From the Margins to the Mainstream

by Jon Savage

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“I've become this happiness scavenger who picks away at the ugliness of the world, because if there's happiness tucked away in my tragedies, I'll find it no matter what. If the blind can find joy in music, and the deaf can discover it with colors, I will do my best to always find the sun in the darkness because my life isn't one sad ending—it's a series of endless happy beginnings.”
― Adam Silvera, More Happy Than Not

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“The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

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“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein

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“God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason he made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine: so that humanity might share in the act of creation.”
― Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

tags: creation, queer, trans, transgender, transsexual

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“The boy with no direction taught me something unforgettable: happiness comes again if you let it.”
― Adam Silvera, More Happy Than Not

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