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It was good...BUT I felt very disconnected from everything that happened in the book. Maybe it's because I'm sleepy or because I read it over a month, but I don't know. It just feels like there's something missing from it that's preventing me from en
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“Labels don't put us in a box. Ideas do...We have taken hold of the part of our being, or our becoming that has long been nameless, and we have given it a name.”
― Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture
― Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture
“I remember everything. I remember everything so much I am being crushed under the weight of it all. If I weren't so heavily defined by everything I've ever loved and lost; maybe I could be the kind of person who moved through life easily. I'm only eighteen but I'm beginning to understand what my mother meant when she said, Remembering is heavy. It lasts so long.”
― The Rose Bargain
― The Rose Bargain
“I feel like the noose is tightening around me and I want out, but struggling only cinches the knot. The spiral just keeps tightening, you know?'
She looked me dead in the eye. I thought she might cry or something, the way she was looking at me. 'Aza, you're going to survive this.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
She looked me dead in the eye. I thought she might cry or something, the way she was looking at me. 'Aza, you're going to survive this.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
“Dante was right/ This is the land where nothing shines;/ even the stars/ reject it./ And the ones on my palms/are so dark/they devour all other light./I was supposed to be better than this.”
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