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“Strength is not in the body, it’s in the mind. It doesn’t lie in flexing your muscles and crushing those who oppose you. It lies in being the last one standing. By any means. At any cost.”
― Black Iris
― Black Iris
“Fuck forgiveness.
That’s what they want me to do. Make it easy for them. Clear their consciences. Let them get away with what they’ve done.
The powerful. The strong. The privileged.
Not a fucking chance.”
― Black Iris
That’s what they want me to do. Make it easy for them. Clear their consciences. Let them get away with what they’ve done.
The powerful. The strong. The privileged.
Not a fucking chance.”
― Black Iris
“In a typical college romance novel, this was the moment I would’ve been waiting for. The validation of all my shame and suffering at the hands of other men: a beautiful boy loved me. What had been done to my body didn’t ruin me for Mr. Right. Zippity-fucking-doo-dah.”
― Black Iris
― Black Iris
“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
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“If I could fall in love with a girl, it’d be her. Those ifs are dangerous. You try them on in your head like dresses, so easy to slide in and out of. If I kissed girls, I’d kiss her. If we kissed, it’d go like this. At some point I dropped the if like a slip and just wore the feeling, nothing between it and my skin. When I kiss her. When it happens. All of it took place in my head, in silence, locked tight in skull bone and the frantic synaptic whispers between neurons, no clues popping out except the passive-aggressive haircut, the incriminating poem.
That’s the problem with writers. Too much imagination.
The greater part of me knew it couldn’t be real, but the hopeful part, which is more concentrated and condensed, rich in nine essential delusions, thought: It’s not all in your head.”
― Black Iris
That’s the problem with writers. Too much imagination.
The greater part of me knew it couldn’t be real, but the hopeful part, which is more concentrated and condensed, rich in nine essential delusions, thought: It’s not all in your head.”
― Black Iris
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