some people had bad things done to them, and they just couldn’t wait to push that pain onto someone else.
“History, huh?”
― Red, White & Royal Blue
― Red, White & Royal Blue
“A fact of my life was that I had a morbid fear of reproach, especially from women.”
― Purity
― Purity
“Happy people didn’t tell lies.”
― Purity
― Purity
“But strict limits to intimacy are the straight man’s burden.”
― Purity
― Purity
“Eventually I gave up making cards. There was such childish hope in these cards, I began to feel pitiful even to myself like a dog whose tail is thump-thump-thumping long after everyone has abandoned him.”
― My Life as a Rat
― My Life as a Rat
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