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“At that age there’s music playing in your head all the time, as if a radio were transmitting from the nape of your neck, inside your skull. Then one day that music starts to grow softer, or it just stops. When that happens, you’re no longer a teenager”
― The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
― The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
“Orpheus I also play the lyre Eurydice Ooh, a liar, and a player too! I’ve met too many men like you”
― Working on a Song: The Lyrics of HADESTOWN
― Working on a Song: The Lyrics of HADESTOWN
“You dance through topics like two old friends, finding comfort in a language which is instantly familiar. You create a small world for yourselves, and for you both only, sitting on this sofa, looking out at the world which has a tendency to engulf even the most alive.”
― Open Water
― Open Water
“What you're trying to say is that it's easier for you to hide in your own darkness, than emerge cloaked in your own vulnerability. Not better, but easier. However the longer you hold it in, the more likely you are to suffocate.
At some point, you must breathe.”
― Open Water
At some point, you must breathe.”
― Open Water
“To give desire a voice is to give it a body through which to breathe and live. It is to admit and submit something which is on the outer limits of your understanding.”
― Open Water
― Open Water
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Fraser’s 2025 Year in Books
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