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“Give sorrow occasion and let it go, or your heart will imprison you in constant February, a chain-link fence around frozen soil, where your dead will stack in towers past the point of grieving. Let your tears fall for the dead, and as one who is suffering begin the lament . . . do not neglect his burial.”
― Allen Barnett, The Body and Its Dangers & Other Stories

“Until today, sex hasn’t been a possibility, so it hasn’t been a temptation. He is sorry he enjoyed it so much, because it squanders the passion he needs to climb out of common life into the greater world.”
― Christopher Bram, Father of Frankenstein

“His head is full of shit, but his bowels are dry.”
― Christopher Bram, Father of Frankenstein

“I ain't ashamed of it – I'm ashamed of you – you done made me feel a shame I ain't never felt before. I shamed before my God – to let somebody make me cheap, like you done done.”
― James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain