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“Who are you?' She said, 'Have you always been like this? Have you just been waiting to happen?”
― The Safekeep
― The Safekeep
“Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past.”
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
“Sometimes you need people to be perfect and they can’t be and you hate them forever for not being even though it isn’t their fault and it’s not yours either. You just needed something they didn’t have in them to give you.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“What I am is an adult woman with agency and the tools to make choices. Feel free to, you know, treat me accordingly.”
― Bride
― Bride
“I believe each of us sees the other Person in our own way, so we should give them the name we consider suitable and fitting. Thus we are polyonymous. We have as many names as the number of people with whom we interact.”
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
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