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Most folks think it’s the guilt or rage that destroys us in the end, but I know from experience that it’s shame that eats us away until we disappear.
“I’m a drag queen. I’m a celebrity trapped in a normal person’s body.”
― I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir
― I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir
“And what no one else knew was the appalling weight of the thing they were carrying inside. The inhuman effort it took sometimes to be normal, and a part of things that appeared both easy and everyday. The loneliness of that.”
― The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
― The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
“There were men who cracked their knuckles while divulging to me what they would do to The Defendant if they got the chance, thinking this was somehow reassuring for me to hear. But all it did was make me realize that there wasn’t so big a difference between the man who’d brutalized Denise and half the men I passed every day on the street.”
― Bright Young Women
― Bright Young Women
“paradise is a world where everything is sanctuary & nothing is a gun.”
― Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
― Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
“When we’re incomplete, we’re always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we’re still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on—series polygamy—until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment.”
― Still Life With Woodpecker
― Still Life With Woodpecker
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