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"My lord, this is taking forever for me. It's hefty, thats for sure, and a bit slow. I think that the author lack subtly at points, almost explaining things to death, especially about the pointed racism shown. I still like it, im just sure it will take me awhile yet." — Dec 16, 2025 11:32AM
"My lord, this is taking forever for me. It's hefty, thats for sure, and a bit slow. I think that the author lack subtly at points, almost explaining things to death, especially about the pointed racism shown. I still like it, im just sure it will take me awhile yet." — Dec 16, 2025 11:32AM
“There you are,” Jean said. It was jarring enough to shake the warmth out of him. Where Leo had said it with hungry satisfaction, Jean only sounded thoughtful. “Jean?” he asked. Jean turned a considering look on him. “You go away when
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“Love in your novels, I think, acts as a form of hope. Why hope?... I want to know about love"
"But isn't love a form of hope?"
"No, love is crushing. Love is something you let yourself feel at your own peril despite your better sense."
"True, it's all those things. But where would we be if we didn't feel it? I think it's the only form of hope we have, for our survival I mean. What good is any other virtue without love? In literature, love is a weakness.... Love is not the weakness, people get it its way people are weak and perilous, not love.”
― Heart the Lover
"But isn't love a form of hope?"
"No, love is crushing. Love is something you let yourself feel at your own peril despite your better sense."
"True, it's all those things. But where would we be if we didn't feel it? I think it's the only form of hope we have, for our survival I mean. What good is any other virtue without love? In literature, love is a weakness.... Love is not the weakness, people get it its way people are weak and perilous, not love.”
― Heart the Lover
“He hasn’t played a clean game in years,” Kevin admitted, “but he knows how to follow orders. If you tell him to submit, he will.” “Literally the most awkward way you could’ve worded it,” Jeremy said”
― The Sunshine Court
― The Sunshine Court
“It’s not about being perfect, Jean. It’s about being better overall, and you were. You are in every way,” he insisted when Jean tried to wave him off. “If I threw a rock into the chasm between your talents and his, I don’t think I’d ever hear it hit bottom.” It was so uncharacteristically rude Jean could only stare at him. He didn’t have to say anything; Jeremy grimaced and dropped his gaze. “Sorry, that was uncalled-for. I know better than to let them get to me, but they’ve always brought out the worst in me.” “It makes you more interesting,” Jean said, and watched the way Jeremy’s jaw worked on silent protests. That he wouldn’t even defend himself said worlds to how disappointed he was in his thoughtlessness; he didn’t want Jean to like this side of him. Jean finally took pity on him and explained, “Not your capacity for unkindness, but how fiercely you fight against it.”
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“In my childhood, I had been terrified of the vicious monsters I read about in my books. Yet I was learning that as much to be feared was a scythe-like smile and words that cut deep.”
― Daughter of the Moon Goddess
― Daughter of the Moon Goddess
“It doesn't matter which story. Let's say it was the one where the young actresses said yes to a pool party and didn't know or no, let's say it was the one where the rugby team covered up the girl's death and the school covered for the rugby team. Actually, it was the one where the therapist spent years grooming her.
It was the one where the senator, then a promising teenager, shoved his dick in the girl’s face. She was also a promising teenager. It was the one where the billionaire pushed the woman into the phone booth, but no one believed her. The one where the high school senior was acquitted of rape because the sophomore girl had shaved her pubic region, which somehow equaled consent...
The one where the judge said the swimmer was so promising. The one where the rapist reminded the judge of himself as a young rapist. It was the one where her body was never found. It was the one where her body was found in the snow. It was the one where he left her body for dead under the tarp. It was the one where she walked around in her skin and her bones for the rest of her life but her body was never recovered.
You know the one.”
― I Have Some Questions for You
It was the one where the senator, then a promising teenager, shoved his dick in the girl’s face. She was also a promising teenager. It was the one where the billionaire pushed the woman into the phone booth, but no one believed her. The one where the high school senior was acquitted of rape because the sophomore girl had shaved her pubic region, which somehow equaled consent...
The one where the judge said the swimmer was so promising. The one where the rapist reminded the judge of himself as a young rapist. It was the one where her body was never found. It was the one where her body was found in the snow. It was the one where he left her body for dead under the tarp. It was the one where she walked around in her skin and her bones for the rest of her life but her body was never recovered.
You know the one.”
― I Have Some Questions for You
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