Jay

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Jay’s Notes & Highlights

Fallen Thorns by Harvey Oliver Baxter

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I was never cut out to be: the picturesque location and poetic lifestyle, precariously parted hair and charity shop camel coats; thick golfer vests and over polished boots, striding the narrow streets of Durham as if I were written by Donna ...more

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Jay’s Quotes

“They wanted each other in the way of flesh wanting to knit itself together over a wound.”
― Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

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“He said my ambiguity was one of the few things that made me "interesting." Afterwards I cried while talking with Charles about it, saying I don't want to be interesting, I want to be happy.”
― Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

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“He couldn’t stand to look at the truth, even now. All they were—all they had ever been—was a pair of sunflowers who each believed the other was the sun.”
― Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

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“I don't know, it's like I look at you and suddenly the sonnets makes sense. The good ones, anyway.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

tags: mystery

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“His face twisted through several contradictory emotions and he said, "For fuck's sake Andrew. Is there anything in this scenario that feels heterosexual or well-adjusted to you?”
― Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons

tags: homosexual

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