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"It feels somehow unwise to post about how this essay makes me feel. The current wave of pervasive cultural panic in the U.S. makes me wary to be too transgender or, god forbid, too transgender and horny about it where people can see it. I wasn't interested in analyzing eroticism in craft until I experienced the build and catharsis of one section early on in Time is the Thing ... and now I'm hooked." — Apr 08, 2024 02:11AM
"It feels somehow unwise to post about how this essay makes me feel. The current wave of pervasive cultural panic in the U.S. makes me wary to be too transgender or, god forbid, too transgender and horny about it where people can see it. I wasn't interested in analyzing eroticism in craft until I experienced the build and catharsis of one section early on in Time is the Thing ... and now I'm hooked." — Apr 08, 2024 02:11AM
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
― The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice
― The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel—everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.”
― I Await the Devil's Coming
― I Await the Devil's Coming
“Is there a way," she wrote in closing, "to dignify sex, make it as complicated as we are, to make it not grotesque?”
― I Love Dick
― I Love Dick
“125. Of course, you could just take off the blindfold and say, 'I think this game is stupid and I'm not playing it anymore.' And it must also be admitted that hitting the wall or wandering off in the wrong direction or tearing off the blindfold is as much a part of the game as is pinning the tail on the donkey.”
― Bluets
― Bluets
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