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“we make assumptions about how our lives are being charted without knowing that we’re even making these assumptions - which is the beauty of assumptions: they anchor us without the slightest clue that what we’re doing is trusting that nothing changes ... we believe that our friends will stay our friends, and that those we love we’ll love forever.”

“i realised my life would be full of mundane physical suffering, and that there was nothing special about it. suffering wouldn’t make me special, and pretend not to suffer wouldn’t make me special. talking about it or even writing about it would not transform the suffering into something useful. nothing would.”

“one day she asks, who knows about us? it becomes a refrain. its strange - in some past generation this could have meant so many things. who knows we’re lovers? who knows we’re queer? but when she asks, the unspoken reason is awful, deflated of nobility or romance: who knows that i yell at you like this?”