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“You can’t tell people what to be, I’m afraid,” said Rosie. “You can only love and support who they already are.”
― This Is How It Always Is
― This Is How It Always Is
“The very act of recall is like trying to photograph the sky. The infinite and ever-shifting colors of memory, its rippling light, cannot really be captured. Show someone who has never seen the sky a picture of the sky and you show them a picture of nothing.
Still I have to try.”
― Self-Portrait with Boy
Still I have to try.”
― Self-Portrait with Boy
“Sex is important isn't it? It's the thing that stops you from just being friends with someone. Else we'd all marry our friends.”
― Queenie
― Queenie
“Is this what growing into an adult woman is—having to predict and accordingly arrange for the avoidance of sexual harassment?”
― Queenie
― Queenie
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