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It is a formula for unwitting ignorance, fear and misunderstanding, that can lead to the belligerent forms of intolerance that are the opposite of America’s original goals for its citizens of many cultures.
“A little lying never hurt anybody. It kept the bounds of what one person was distinct from what another person was.”
― Death in Her Hands
― Death in Her Hands
“Of course: under gender we find the bare thing, the person themself.”
― The Fixed Stars
― The Fixed Stars
“You spend so much time playing in your mind, like a sandbox. Everything just slipping through your fingers, nothing solid to hold.”
― Death in Her Hands
― Death in Her Hands
“Life was persistent. There it was, every day. Each morning it woke me up. It was loud and brash. A bully. A lounge singer in a garish sequin dress. A runaway truck. A jackhammer. A brush fire. A canker sore. Death was different. It was tender, a mystery.”
― Death in Her Hands
― Death in Her Hands
“There is nothing more heartbreaking than a squandered opportunity, a missed chance. I knew about stuff like that. I’d been young once. So many dreams had been dashed. But I dashed them myself. I wanted to be safe, whole, have a future of certainty. One makes mistakes when there is confusion between having a future at all and having the future one wants.”
― Death in Her Hands
― Death in Her Hands
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