had felt good, but it was like the drip coffee back in America versus the espresso made in Europe.
“Well, another thing we know is that a lot of people who are gay don’t have the ability to admit it even to themselves. But if she were straight, if she were a straight teacher and a male student had a crush on her, would she react that way?”
― Burning Butch
― Burning Butch
“The problem was me.
If you are the problem, then no matter where you go the problem will come along for the ride. Whatever dream you follow, whatever supposedly virgin territory you travel to, and however many times you tell yourself that it's unblemished: if you are the problem there is no escape.”
― A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: Discovering the Beauty of My ADHD Mind―A Memoir
If you are the problem, then no matter where you go the problem will come along for the ride. Whatever dream you follow, whatever supposedly virgin territory you travel to, and however many times you tell yourself that it's unblemished: if you are the problem there is no escape.”
― A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: Discovering the Beauty of My ADHD Mind―A Memoir
“Real God and Love, too, I knew, must be more like the mother who stretches her mind around queerness and polyamory and all the limits of gender, and keeps inviting the children back who’ve hurt her or done what she never would have—a mom who believes in Love.”
― Burning Butch
― Burning Butch
“Kissing Brad had felt good, but it was like the drip coffee back in America versus the espresso made in Europe.”
― Burning Butch
― Burning Butch
“In reality, it was just people talking to each other, through centuries—carvings on walls, poems, radio waves, TV signals, and the internet—telling stories to show each other what we can survive, the chorus of survivors, of bad women and queers, of teachers and artists, repeating that same thing over and over in all the different languages: Get up, come out: resurrect yourself.”
― Burning Butch
― Burning Butch
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