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“I was thinking, no doubt, of our nights in bed, of the peculiar innocence and confidence, which will never come again, which had made those nights so delightful, so unrelated to past, present, or anything to come, so unrelated, finally, to my life since it was not necessary for me to take any but the most mechanical responsibility for them. And these nights were being acted out under a foreign sky, with no one to watch, no penalties attached—it was this last fact which was our undoing, for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“How much of my mother's life I missed because I was a child”
― The Death of Vivek Oji
― The Death of Vivek Oji
“Alone is a feeling you can get used to, and it's hard to believe in a better alternative.”
― The Death of Vivek Oji
― The Death of Vivek Oji
“He didn't belong to you...You keep talking as if he belonged to you, just because you were his mother, but he didn't.
He didn't belong to anybody but himself.”
― The Death of Vivek Oji
He didn't belong to anybody but himself.”
― The Death of Vivek Oji
“AND TO TIGHTROPE IS NO EASY TASK. Read the “wrong” book, follow the
“wrong” leader, joke inappropriately, invoke a trope, knowingly or unknowingly, show
animosity, read about resistance, write about resistance, graffiti the walls, pick up a
rifle, and they will kill you. Sometimes even if you wave a white flag.
*Our enemy
always possesses probable cause. Something as simple and random as your gender is
sufficient to fling you far away from humanity. One cannot simply mourn a Palestinian
man, not before absolving him first of his cardinal sin, the crime of being Palestinian.”
― Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
“wrong” leader, joke inappropriately, invoke a trope, knowingly or unknowingly, show
animosity, read about resistance, write about resistance, graffiti the walls, pick up a
rifle, and they will kill you. Sometimes even if you wave a white flag.
*Our enemy
always possesses probable cause. Something as simple and random as your gender is
sufficient to fling you far away from humanity. One cannot simply mourn a Palestinian
man, not before absolving him first of his cardinal sin, the crime of being Palestinian.”
― Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
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