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"When he talks to Marianne he has a sense of total privacy between them. He could tell her anything about himself, even weird things, and she would never repeat them, he knows that."

"The greatest source of suffering are the lies we tell ourselves."

“I try to live a blameless life, but am crushed at times by peoples’ lack of understanding.”

“The world hasn’t changed. It’s just as cruel as it always was.”

“It's just good hospitality,' Tokue countered.
‘For the customers?'
‘No. The beans.'
‘The beans?'
‘Because they came all the way from Canada. For us.”

Parents start out with grand expectations for their kids. But when things don't go as expected, they just want their kids to be ordinary, thinking it's simple. But son, being ordinary is the hardest thing to achieve.

Checking the sex of the foetus and aborting females was common practice, as if 'daughter' was a medical problem.

Nothing frightens me more than the thought of someone mocking me while I suffer in pain.

There are no kind masters, Letty,’ Anthony continued. ‘It doesn’t matter how lenient, how gracious, how invested in your education they make out to be. Masters are masters in the end.

He hoped. He hoped until hope became its own form of torture. The original meaning of hope was 'to desire', and Robin wanted with every ounce of his being a world that no longer was.

"Thats the things about colonialism. It's built to destroy that which it prizes most."

“How strange,’ said Ramy. ‘To love the stuff and the language, but to hate the country.’

‘Not as odd as you’d think,’ said Victoire. ‘There are people, after all, and then there are things.”

All our silver goes to luxury, to the military, to making lace and weapons when there are people dying of simple things these bars could fix. It’s not right that you recruit students from other countries to work your translation centre and that their motherlands receive nothing in return.

You're lost, brother. You're a ship adrift, searching for familiar shores. I understand what it is you want. I sought it too. But there is no homeland. It's gone.

i know it is already my fourth reread of this book THIS year BUT this time i am annotating it for a friend

"Masculinity is the loneliest island I knew. Why? Because men don't hold other men. (...) Only when we are dying. Never when we are crying. Only when we are drunk and limping, only in the rugby games or the football cheers. Only in the irony. Only behind ears or curtains that know not of what we do behind them. Only when we are babies or children. Only sometimes, never always, never when we need. (...)"

"To this day Fox remains one of the most divisive transgender athletes to ever compete, a heroine to those looking for a transgender role model but a villain to all those who saw her as a dude willing to beat up on women."

“If she was different with Connell, the difference was not happening inside herself, in her personhood, but in between them, in the dynamic.”

“he fears being around her, because of the confusing way he finds himself behaving, the things he says that he would never ordinarily say.”

“I want to take care of our planet because I need a beautiful graveyard.”

“I'm back inside
my head
where it's safe.”

“It reminds us that our mood is not fixed and it does not define who we are; it is a sensation we experience.”

" There is, in fact, no word in Japanese that means retire in the sense of
'leaving the workforce for good' as in English. Having a purpose in life is so important in Japanese culture that our idea of retirement simply doesn’t exist there.”

"I have found that as a trans person it's acceptable to compete but don't you dare win. Well I did just that."

"I didn't want to stop existing, i just wanted to stop feeling so lonely and unworthy."