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I think a lot about queer villains, the problem and pleasure and audacity of them. I know I should have a very specific political response to them. I know, for example, I should be offended by Disney’s lineup of vain, effete ne’er-do-wells ...more
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Jacqueline Woodson
“Everyone else has gone away. And now coming back home isn’t really coming back home at all.”
Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming

Meg Wolitzer
“People’s marriages were like two-person religious cults, impossible to understand.”
Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

Jacqueline Woodson
“Somewhere in my brain each laugh, tear and lullaby becomes memory.”
Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming

Rebecca Makkai
“If we could just be on earth at the same place and same time as everyone we loved, if we could be born together and die together, it would be so simple. And it’s not. But listen: You two are on the planet at the same time. You’re in the same place now. That’s a miracle. I just want to say that.”
Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

Richard Brautigan
“Money is sad shit”
Richard Brautigan, The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings

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