“Being a color in Texas is to wake stressed from being.”
― Mixology
― Mixology
“I don't know if hope is white. But I do know that hope for me is like some mythical creature.”
― The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
― The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“I need to believe in her stories as much as she does. That Lothar Berfelde navigated a path between the two most repressive regimes the Western World has ever known - the Nazis and the Communists - in a pair of heels.”
― I Am My Own Wife
― I Am My Own Wife
“A stand of iris rises as an island in the grass,”
― Restoration: Poems
― Restoration: Poems
“She blushed. I love it when women blush, especially those big butch girls who know you want them. And I wanted her. I did. I wanted her. But she was a difficult woman, wouldn’t let me give her a backrub, read her palm, or sew up the tear in her jeans—all those ritual techniques Southern femmes have employed in the seduction of innocent butch girls.”
― Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
― Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
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