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“Just remember: a great leader weighs the consequences of every decision, and must bear the weight of those consequences. So ask yourself: which consequences can you live with?”
― Heartless Hunter
― Heartless Hunter
“Sometimes I think I miss being known.
I miss having a place I fit. People who remember that I like zucchini bread with extra chocolate chips. An overstuffed chair covered in horrendous green velvet, one of the arm rest wobbling every time I try to rest my chin in my hand.”
― Business Casual
I miss having a place I fit. People who remember that I like zucchini bread with extra chocolate chips. An overstuffed chair covered in horrendous green velvet, one of the arm rest wobbling every time I try to rest my chin in my hand.”
― Business Casual
“He wanted to tell Shane that the closest he felt to home was when he was with him. It didn’t matter if it was in a hotel room, or Ilya’s apartment, or at that weird hideout building Shane bought in Montreal, or here at Shane’s cottage; he was himself when he was with Shane. He’d left Russia, he was uneasy in America, and he’d spent his entire adult life drifting between continents and between lovers.”
― Heated Rivalry
― Heated Rivalry
“The cost of wanting something is who you are on the other side of getting it”
― The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
― The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
“no matter what Saint Paul may thunder, love is where you find it. A man can fall in love with a man: incarceration, torture, fire, and death, and, still more, the threat of these, have not been able to prevent it, and never will. It became a grave, a tragic matter, on the North American continent, where white power became indistinguishable from the question of sexual dominance. But the question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.”
― The Devil Finds Work: Essays
― The Devil Finds Work: Essays
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