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Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies)
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But she has been mine. I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.


“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five

“I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey

“But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt. So it goes. People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five

“In the wet starlight and on the wet ground.
The lake lay in the mist, its ice half drowned.
A blurry shape stepped off the reedy bank
Into a crackling, gulping swamp, and sank.”
― Pale Fire
The lake lay in the mist, its ice half drowned.
A blurry shape stepped off the reedy bank
Into a crackling, gulping swamp, and sank.”
― Pale Fire
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