“Adam put the paper down and said, "I never like to see government spelt with a large G.”
― The Transit of Venus
― The Transit of Venus
“Memories cool to different temperatures at different speeds.”
― The Transit of Venus
― The Transit of Venus
“In thoughts, one keeps a reserve of hope, in spite of everything. You cannot say good-bye in imagination. That is something you can only do in actuality, in the flesh.”
― The Transit of Venus
― The Transit of Venus
“It's scary-seductive, emphasis on scary. Start looking for that kind of comfort and he's bound to make a fool of himself.”
― Detransition, Baby
― Detransition, Baby
“She decides for the ten thousandth time that heterosexual cis people, while willfully ignoring it, have staked their whole sexuality on a bet that each other's genders are real. If only cis heterosexuals would realize that, like trans women, the activity in which they are indulging is a big self-pleasuring lie that has little to do with their actual personhood, they'd be free to indulge in a whole new flexible suite of hot ways to lie to each other.”
― Detransition, Baby
― Detransition, Baby
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