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Spud will always be my favourite

“He’s a traitor, a grass, a cunt, a scab, a selfish egotist, he’s everything that anyone who is working class needs to be to get on in the new global capitalist order.”

“I could buy some plants.” I shrug. The amount of times I’ve thought buying plants might make a difference in my life is staggering.

“I yearn to know the people I love deeply and intimately—without context, without boxes—and I yearn for them to know me that way, too.”

“About ten people a year die from food-induced anaphylaxis each year.”

The editing of this book leaves something to be desired.

“A sea roared inside her and made demands, but she waded it, she bobbed up, took a breath, and opened her eyes to the cold winter morning. Then she rose because the day was there, the world was there, and she wanted to be part of it.”

I have never found a fictional character I hated more.

:)

“Africanism is the vehicle by which the American self knows itself as not enslaved, but free; not repulsive, but desirable; not helpless, but licensed and powerful; not history-less but historical; not damned, but innocent; not a blind accident of evolution, but a progressive fulfilment of destiny.”