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“Disassociation is a gay ritual as much as any other.”
― Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
― Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
“You will be able to stop hurting people when you stop hurting yourself.”
― Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars
― Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars
“I want to peel off all my skin, if only so I could be anything other than a naked body, something horrifying instead of vulnerable. Nobody looks at a pig corpse and thinks it could be made beautiful.”
― The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
― The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
“I found myself taking more risks, because failure had a second life — it could spin a yarn. There was an agency in the retelling, in the self-deprecation and of course self-mythologizing. Memoir is how you groom yourself. Memoir is drag.”
― Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
― Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
“They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
Ted’s 2025 Year in Books
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Art, Children's, Classics, Comics, Cookbooks, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Manga, Memoir, Mystery, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Romance, Science, Science fiction, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, Young-adult, and queer-lit
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