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"Paul smarted at this unfairness of apartment hunting: you needed an apartment with a phone to get an apartment with a phone, like you needed a job to get a job, or money to get money. But worse–you needed a phone to get a job, so you actually needed an apartment to get a phone to get a job, so the apartment was first, but you needed a /job/ to get the apartment."

"He did not himself care to assimilate into the power structures of heteropatriarchal white Christian America, was bored and horrified by those who did."

interesting perspectives on denying monogamy from a male and female lens; "...male creatures had a biological imperative to spread their seed and so could not actually be monogamous...Interestingly, Diane had shared Tony's conclusions about monogamy: for her it was just another way the patriarchy controlled women's bodies."

"When he did sleep he dreamed of Diane, the worst dream—the dream where she still loved him—and when he woke he was alone again."

well damn

"Men and woman alike confounded Paul; they were so rule-bound. Straight people seemed confused by each other, so anxious to find camaraderie within their gender, so startled by differences between their bodies, always pinning explanations for the inevitable gulf between humans on chromosomes."

"'Woman Who Posed As A Man Is Found Slain With 2 Others,' the headline read."

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"'/He was in here all the time with girls, and the girls were hanging all over him, Ms. Gresham said/. He sounds like a total player.'

'/She/,' said Zoe.

'Right,' said Paul. 'She.'"

"He could tell she liked that he was girlier than her, liked that she was so much bigger than him, liked to do little things for him, but sometimes he did wonder if she liked liking what she liked."

"Her shoulders were broader than his. You'll stretch it! he thought helplessly when she'd borrowed his shirt that morning, but no, better, he'd sacrifice his shirts for her. He'd wear the stretched-out shirt thinking /Diane's body was here and I am now inside the space she left, I fit myself inside her shape./"

"Heterosexuality = marriage = death, Paul knew."

well yes girl! straight men are horrible at fucking!

"Paul waited for her in the dark kitchen, pouring glasses of water and hoping Christopher wouldn't wake up and wonder why lesbians were fighting in the apartment."

"Anyway, by the way, yes, I am a giant queer who threatens your pathetic sense of knowing anything about the world, tiny asshole."

"You're too beautiful to die, I don't want you to die."

"I don't want you to die, too. Let's never die."

"Everyone dies sometime, we'll be in the earth, one with everything. But not until we're very old."

"Okay, when we're very old."

"He located a single can of Squirt, which he bought for the name."

WOW

"I am being penetrated by punk,"

well YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHAT

"I said nothing; I made no gesture of any kind, but it was the first time in my life I ever wanted to kiss a man."

"Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace. And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness."

"I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine."

:(

i don't like youuuuu................

OH MY GOD