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max theodore said:
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it feels deeply silly to goodreads-review beowulf. like, it's beowulf. famous-old-english-poem-from-like-the-year-900 beowulf. what can i possibly say about it. what is the pointi fully understand why this is the first thing i had to read for this ye ...more "
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"testament to headley’s poetry that i didn’t throw this book at “hashtag: blessed”" — Jul 02, 2026 01:50PM
"testament to headley’s poetry that i didn’t throw this book at “hashtag: blessed”" — Jul 02, 2026 01:50PM
“You know, I never went to New York. Never even visited. I don't know why I didn't. I remember watching Sesame Street when I was little, and I liked how people would just sit on their steps and talk to each other in front of these nice and neat and square buildings. And all they had to do was cross the street or go next door to talk to each other.
Then I went to school, got a job, you know, you get busy. And it's ...
Who was it who said, uh, "even if life is forever, each moment of it is a miracle?" I think that's just something we tell ourselves. We're just ordinary and forever, I think. There's a leveling out that happens if you live forever and ever without anything to lose.
New York was probably just one more place with a lot of buildings. But I missed seeing it, that's a thing I lost. That's one of the only things I've ever lost. Thinking about that kind of gets me right in the heart. Like a little xylophone hammer is, you know, just hits it. ... It's a note we never play anymore.”
― 17776: What football will look like in the future
Then I went to school, got a job, you know, you get busy. And it's ...
Who was it who said, uh, "even if life is forever, each moment of it is a miracle?" I think that's just something we tell ourselves. We're just ordinary and forever, I think. There's a leveling out that happens if you live forever and ever without anything to lose.
New York was probably just one more place with a lot of buildings. But I missed seeing it, that's a thing I lost. That's one of the only things I've ever lost. Thinking about that kind of gets me right in the heart. Like a little xylophone hammer is, you know, just hits it. ... It's a note we never play anymore.”
― 17776: What football will look like in the future
“Over the course of my life, as I have made my Houdini-like escapes from one self-imposed constraint after another, a question haunts me with increasing insistence. How many levels does this game have?”
― The Secret to Superhuman Strength
― The Secret to Superhuman Strength
“Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from the pinnacle of a tower into the air? Could it be, even for elderly people, that this was life?—startling, unexpected, unknown?”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“I came of age in a culture where gay marriage went from comic impossibility to foregone conclusion to law of the land. I haven't been closeted in almost a decade. Even so I am unaccountably haunted by the specter of the lunatic lesbian. I did not want my lover to be dogged by mental illness or a personality disorder or rage issues. I did not want her to act with unflagging irrationality. I didn't want her to be jealous or cruel. Years later, if I could say anything to her, I'd say "For fuck's sake, stop making us look bad.”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House
“We do bones, motherfucker.”
― Gideon the Ninth
― Gideon the Ninth
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