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“It's incredible that a sentence is ever understood. Mere sounds strung together by some agent attempting to mean some thing but the meaning need not, and does not, confine itself to that intention.”
― Erasure
― Erasure
“A cis boy with eyeliner who introduces himself with his pronouns is fucking bisexual catnip.”
― Old Enough
― Old Enough
“In that second she saw that she could bear anything, but only if no one knew that she had anything to bear.”
― Passing
― Passing
“The hard, gritty truth of the matter is that I hardly ever think about race. Those times when I did think about it a lot I did so because of my guilt for not thinking about it. I don’t believe in race. I believe there are people who will shoot me or hang me or cheat me and try to stop me because they do believe in race, because of my brown skin, curly hair, wide nose and slave ancestors. But that’s just the way it is.”
― Erasure
― Erasure
“Chinese-Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?”
― The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
― The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Phoebe’s 2025 Year in Books
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