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As a callow eighteen-year-old leaving for college, I’d seen my hometown as a mere launching pad for a life in worldlier locales, a place to be from rather than a place to be. But years and miles away from home could never attenuate the
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“Not tonight, good Iago. I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking. I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.”
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“[S]ince I became a woman, boys were gonna follow me around more often, 'cause they could follow the trail of stars that fall from between my legs after dark.”
― Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
― Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
“When you realize your blood has come, smile; an honest smile, for you are about to have an intense union with your magic. This is a private time...for thinking and dreaming. [D]raining worries, fall away as your body lets what she doesn't need go from her. Remember that you are a river; your banks are red honey where the Moon wanders.”
― Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
― Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
“The less we understand a group in society--the less we bother to learn--the more misconceptions and worries we have.”
― This Book Is Gay
― This Book Is Gay
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