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“Robin's mind was oddly blank, as it had been sometimes at the end of a particularly fiendish examination, as if he'd scooped out its worthwhile contents with his fingers and smeared them grimly onto the page. The last time he'd felt this way was when he found out that his parents were dead. Instead of surprise, this. An exhausted, wrung-out space.”
― Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light

“And not to be outdone, Nick exclaimed, "Don't listen to them! I know for a fact dads are liars because I have incontrovertible proof that Seth doesn't orgasm fire!"

Silence, only interrupted by Seth banging his head against the nearest wall over and over, each hit punctuated by the word why.”
― T.J. Klune, Heat Wave

“Oh my fucking God, is that adorable or are my standards apocalyptically lowered?”
― Erik J. Brown, All That’s Left in the World

“At the crux of it, everyone wants the world to see them as they are. The truth isn’t the problem. The problem is the world doesn’t always make the truth safe for us to share.”
― Cale Dietrich, If This Gets Out