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We Could Be Rats

by Emily R. Austin (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, contemp, lgbtq, mental-anguish, physically-owned

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Salt Slow

by Julia Armfield

bookshelves: physically-owned, lgbtq, short-stories-and-essays, fantasyish, currently-reading

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Aug 30, 2023 05:03PM

“I think I am an impostor. Twenty-seven years ago I was a baby. Before that I was a clump of cells. Before that I didn’t exist. How could I be a bookstore clerk, or a Catholic, or a woman, or a person at all? I’m a life force contained in the deformed body of a baby. Of course I’m a fraud. The fact that I’m able to carry myself through life without being crushed beneath the psychological weight of being alive proves that I’m a con artist. Aren’t we all con artists?”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

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“Of course I’m a fraud. The fact that I’m able to carry myself through life without being crushed beneath the psychological weight of being alive proves that I’m a con artist. Aren’t we all con artists?”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

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“I'm disappointed God is so homophobic that he forgot about lesbians, but I guess I would rather be forgotten than put to death.”
― Emily Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

tags: lesbian, lesbians, religion

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“I wonder what it’s like to be him. To vocalize the stupid thoughts he has without considering how others will interpret them.”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

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“If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They must be put to death. Yikes. Thank God this one doesn’t seem to apply to women either. I’m disappointed God is so homophobic that he forgot about lesbians, but I guess I would rather be forgotten than put to death.”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

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