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Amy Ellis Nutt
“Lesson number one: “Sexual orientation is who you go to bed with,” he told Spack. “Gender identity is who you go to bed as.”
Amy Ellis Nutt, Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family

Jess Row
“In the first couple of weeks there were big piles of trash outside every house. All the stuff you couldn’t find another use for and couldn’t compost. Yogurt cups, torn trash bags, dirty diapers, hair-spray cans, paper towels. Sometimes you’d see a pile that was as high as your waist. Nathan said it was a purge, a cleanse. But you could just as well say that who we were went out with the empties. We will never get our selves back.”
Jess Row, The Empties

Dexter Palmer
“To agree to a marriage is to consent to a mutual act of transformation, to promise to ensure that the versions of yourselves that you will become will remain in harmony, though you yourselves can never stay the same.”
Dexter Palmer, Version Control

Karen Thompson Walker
“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?”
Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles

Jess Row
“Country’s friggin’ dying, man, you have to triage the motherfucker.”
Jess Row, The Empties

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