“Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were joy, sorrow, love or pride, were so deep and sharp that in the end they left you raw, exposed and yes, in pain. The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent's heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.”
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“...our history, the history of European Jews...they will never forgive us for the evil they've done to us”
― But You Did Not Come Back
― But You Did Not Come Back
“She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.”
― Aiding and Abetting
― Aiding and Abetting
“The anecdote is surely recognisable
to all of us who, as a joyful child, unknowingly overstepped the barriers of
gender presentation, and were greeted without mercy by the regime that
enforces them with its most potent weapon, shame.”
― Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
to all of us who, as a joyful child, unknowingly overstepped the barriers of
gender presentation, and were greeted without mercy by the regime that
enforces them with its most potent weapon, shame.”
― Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
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