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“Today really was like a Disney movie," Troy said as he watched them walk away.
Harris took his hand. "It was amazing. And I have a great idea for an ending."
"That sounds like a different kind of movie."
"There isn't a Disney movie where the prince's boyfriend rims him until he begs to be fucked?"
Troy huffed. "I don't know. I don't watch Disney movies.”
― Rachel Reid, Role Model

“Men lived forever in their bodies, in their statues, in the words they guarded jealously and the countries they would never let you claim. The immortality of women was a sideways thing, haphazard and contained in footnotes, as muses or silent helpers. “But things are different here,” my mother always said. She had never set foot in China, would pass all her life on American soil, but she knew how different things could be. She clung to that, and so did we.”
― Nghi Vo, Siren Queen

“Every day that the wealth gap yawned wider, I began to realize that evil was not found in the demons or spirits we could ward away with fragrant flowers, but in the men who thought that everything on earth could be bought.”
― Kylie Lee Baker , The Scarlet Alchemist

“I sighed at the thought of all the unsexy time ahead: nights in with my thoughts and feelings, earnest efforts at knowing and possibly (ugh) loving myself, the utter hassle and enormous privilege of deciding what I wanted to do with my life, my weekends, my heart.”
― Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually