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“Lesson number one: “Sexual orientation is who you go to bed with,” he told Spack. “Gender identity is who you go to bed as.”
― Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family
― Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family
“How quaint the old twenty-four-hour clock began to look to our eyes, how impossibly clean-cut, with its twin sets of twelve, as neat as walnut shells. How had we believed, we wondered, in such simplistic things?”
― The Age of Miracles
― The Age of Miracles
“She knows there are traps everywhere that can make her cry, she knows the way she dies a little every time someone asks her for change and she doesn't give it to them means that she's too soft for this world or perhaps just for this city, she feels so small here.”
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“The safest course was actually the simplest—do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn’t a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.”
― Shades of Grey
― Shades of Grey
“Country’s friggin’ dying, man, you have to triage the motherfucker.”
― The Empties
― The Empties
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