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rereading this because the author has recently gotten her autism diagnosis and I feel like I will be able to see a lot of this with different eyes now

"Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot."
"He's the sun god," I said.
"That's not what I meant."

"Maybe it's not about whether my crushes work out in the end. Maybe it never was. Maybe it's about letting myself have them. Letting myself feel love and lust and heartbreak, my own version of magnificent misery in the process, and never changing my heart for anyone's benefit but my own. I don't mind being the lover, the one who waits, but I won't hesitate to love myself with all I've got in the meantime."

!!!

'Looking at David, Linus said, "Arthur prefers to keep the length of his trousers shorter so that his socks may be enjoyed by all." '

"Reckless Eyeballing" by N.K. Jemisin
☆☆☆ 3/5 stars
There was one moment where I caught myself thinking that the main character surely must be white as he is a cop and thinking some pretty awful thoughts but he was actually black. I'm not sure however that I completely understood why it was done and more importantly the overall message with the way the ending was handled.

obligatory reread after finishing season 3 of the show

" 'That's all we can do. Fuck the fascists, and introspect.' "

"All this love had made such a mess of them."

Crying, screaming, throwing up :(((

"The truth was in front of her now, if she could just be brave enough to see it."

"I rub the ears of my dog, my stupid goddam ruddy great dog that I never wanted but who hung around anyway and [...] who's right there when I need pulling back from the darkness I fall into and who tells me who I am whenever I forget."

"I look at the knife again, sitting there on the moss like a thing without properties, a thing made of metal as seperate from a boy as can be, a thing which casts all blame from itself to the boy who uses it."

"Ich hatte nie Fragen dazu
wen ich begehre
aber dazu, wie ich mein Begehren
benennen kann, weil
>lesbisch<
mit 10.000 Bildern überklebt ist
und zu wenige davon
mir ähneln."

"Auch ich wachse dem Licht entgegen
und kann dabei nicht vermeiden
dass es auf mich scheint
und alles, was zuvor im Verborgenen lag
erleuchtet."

'Auch ich wachse dem Licht entgegen
und kann dabei nicht vermeiden
dass es auf mich scheint
und alles, was zuvor im Verborgenen lag
erleuchtet.'

' "Zorro, oder wie die eine heißt, sie hat gefragt, von wegen, was ich denke, was die beste Vorgehensweise in meiner Situation ist."
"Was hast du geantwortet?"
"Dass ich mir nicht sicher bin, ob sie wissen, was meine Situation ist. Und dass es die Situation wohl nicht gäbe, wenn ich die beste Vorgehensweise wüsste." '

"Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide."

Bless whoever thought of Michael Sheen with this character description as he is truly made for it

"There was definitely something very weird about them, she decided.
Aziraphale bowed again. 'So glad to have been of assistance,' he said.
'Thank you,' said Anathema, icily.
'Can we get on?' said Crowley. 'Goodnight, miss. Get in, angel.'
Ah. Well, that explained it. She had been perfectly safe after all."

~Anathema being weirded out by them until she discovers that they are gay for each other~

"It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people."

" [...] they didnt say nothing about why the quiet makes me ache so much I can barely stop from ruddy weeping, like I'm missing something so bad I can't even think straight, like the emptiness ain't in her, it's in me and there ain't nothing that's ever gonna fix it."

"The Noise is a man unfiltered, and without a filter, a man is just chaos walking."

"A boy at the beginning of the story has no way of knowing that the story has begun."

' "But I've never seen anything like it. If he gets any more charming, men and women may start lying down in the street for the privilege of being stepped on by the new Ravkan King. However did you resist him?" '

Oh look, it's me, I'm lying down in the street for Nikolai to step on!