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“I remember thinking I needed to discuss this with John.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“The label of asexual should be value neutral. It should indicate little more than sexual orientation. Instead, asexual implies a slew of other, negative associations: passionless, uptight, boring, robotic, cold, prude, frigid, lacking, broken. These, especially broken, are the words aces use again and again to describe how we are perceived and made to feel.”
― Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

“It doesn't do any good to blame people or the time-- one is oneself all those people. We are the time.”
― James Baldwin, Another Country

“But it's always like that, we are what we are not because of the people we've met but because of those we've left.”
― Gianfranco Calligarich, Last Summer in the City