Damali
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“I need not be visibly odd. I could engage in the protocols that others followed and move undetected among them. And how could I be sure that other people were not doing the same - playing the game to be accepted but suspecting all the time that they were different?”
― The Rosie Project
― The Rosie Project
“So, to add to a momentous day, I corrected a misconception that my family had held for at least fifteen years and came out to them as straight.”
― The Rosie Project
― The Rosie Project
“And how could I be sure that other people were not doing the same—playing the game to be accepted but suspecting all the time that they were different?”
― The Rosie Project
― The Rosie Project
“Be the best. Work harder, work smarter. Exceed every expectation. But also, be invisible, imperceptible. Don’t make anyone uncomfortable. Don’t inconvenience. Exist in the negative only, the space around. Do not insert yourself into the main narrative. Go unnoticed. Become the air. Open your eyes.”
― Assembly
― Assembly
“I feel. Of course I do. I have emotions. But I try to consider events as if they're happening to someone else. Some other entity. There's the thinking, rationalizing I (me). And the doing, the experiencing, her. I look at her kindly. From a distance. To protect myself, I detach.”
― Assembly
― Assembly
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