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Ghosts of St. Vincent's by Tom Eubanks

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But coming out isn’t a single event. Doors have hinges. By nature they open and close. Coming out, I realized, is a graduating continuum of self-acceptance, bravery, and opportunity. The process never ends.

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“Poseidon put his weathered hand on my shoulder. “Percy, lesser beings do many horrible things in the name of the gods. That does not mean we gods approve. The way our sons and daughters act in our names…well, it usually says more about them than it does about us. And you, Percy, are my favorite son.”
― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

tags: percy-jackson, poseidon

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“Infants have their infancy; adults, adultery.”
― David P. Barash

tags: adultery, faithfulness

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“[B]e comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world, even though you have done nothing to deserve it. And when you resent the ache in your heart, remember: You will be dead and buried soon enough.”
― Paul Harding

tags: death, living-life

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“The gods need heroes. They always have.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

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“we need a mass of ancestors at our backs as ballast. Sometimes, we feel it's impossible to push into the future without such a weight behind us, without such heaviness to keep us steady, even if it is imaginary. And the more frightening the future is, the more complicated it seems to be, the more we steady ourselves with the past.”
― Lauren Groff, The Monsters of Templeton

tags: family

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