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“Here at San Francisco State only the black militants could be construed as serious…for everyone else [it was] just an amiable evasion of routine, of institutional anxiety, of the tedium of the academic calendar.” cycles cycles

i think it’s very special when a book finds you at a time you may need it

dear god i hope she doesn’t wax poetic about male feminists and men raised by women that whole book

“White folks is a miracle of affliction”

“I wash her body, it feels like I’m praying. My hands tremble and my breath short.”

“There were many things she wanted to say, many of which had no beginning or end. How am I supposed to. Because this feels bad. A complete nightmare. The way I feel for you. But I speak differently now. I don’t go up at the ends.”

hilarious so far

“The problem with love, of course, is that it frequently asks too much of unlovable people. It can be hard, on even the best of days, to compel oneself to be selfless and patient and understanding or even halfway reasonable when one is not given to any of those behaviors. But these are nonetheless the qualities that love demands.”

“It is easy, Jude has always reflected, to love a difficult woman. Easy to become the solid place around which she gathers herself, all her insecurities and rages and vendettas, the mooring from which she hangs. Irene is a fucking nightmare, and lovable for it. Lovable because she asks consistently to be loved…” kill me

“Jude moves one hand to the back of her head and says nothing, cups her skull like something small and easily stowed. It is easier, she thinks, to cry like this, with someone holding all her vital parts in place.”

“It’s not a nice quality (and, more to the point, it is not an interesting quality), this tendency to react to the prospect of intimacy with immediate panic. She is aware, painfully aware, that there is nothing more tedious than a person who turns to another and says, I don’t know, I just find it hard to stay interested in someone who actually likes me.”

this is exactly what it’s like to work in a coffee shop i kid you not. minor health code violation, gossiping in between fulfilling orders, being gay..