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“O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the marketplace.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“I wanted to explain myself to myself in an understandable way. I gave shape to my fears and made excuses. I varied my velocities, watched myselves sleep. Something's not right about what I'm doing but I'm still doing it-- living in the worst parts, ruining myself. My inner life is a sheet of black glass. If I fell through the floor I would keep falling.
The enormity of my desire disgusts me.”
― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

“To have spent my life holding my hands in tightly hidden fists. To try to understand what it would mean now to hold them open. I have always felt ashamed at being witnessed in the act of wanting something I could not have”
― Jennifer S. Cheng

“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles