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My mother never understood why I obsessed over roses, even though she was the one who told me that roses were snakes under a spell. “If you look under the petals, there are teeth,” my mother said.

In me, he is in the mirror, alive, smiling… I understand why you’re smiling Carlo: the dead don’t want us to die with them. They want us to keep them alive, in our thoughts, in our voices, in our gestures. With his hands, I pull a strand of hair down over my forehead… to be like him

. . . the ominous silence of a hostile dog or animal. Or is it youth that breathes like that?

Laughing is good for you. It's tiring, but it's a good, pleasant fatigue, like after a good swim.

Such an incredible read thus far!

The bee and the flower kiss with their eyes open

“Do I then embrace my sister!” said she. “United in sentiment, are we also united in misfortune?”

Over all an invisible hand has written the one word — Mystery.

He divined he had a rival. In Italy we have an instinct for them.

I wasn’t expecting gothic horror in my first experience with Balzac. I’m so.. delighted. It’s the only thing I miss in Chekhov’s stuff

Well, I didn’t think I’d be writing the Last Chapter so soon.. I have an intravenous needle in my right wrist & I’m in the hospital

I have AIDS

It really hasn’t hit me that I am about to die. I see the grief around me, but inside I feel serene & a certain kind of peace. My whole life I’ve wanted to be a gay man & it’s kind of an honor to die from the gay men’s disease Words from my cowboy

Both times I’ve read this book, it has permeated and taken over my life in a wonderful wonderful smothering

I had stuffed a sock in my crotch for a cock & one of the drags noticed the bulge. “Hey where’d you get the basket?”

“I figured if the girls can stick out so can the boys.”

beauty and sorrow walk hand in hand, and have the same message

this charles baudelaire spanking scene is going to be one of my favorite feministic literary moments of all time I am going to think about this forever

Beautiful beautiful beautiful first chapter