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“A bloody spear is not only reasonable, it’s been a long time coming.”

Thank you for this unapologetic queer defiance.

Re-reading because I’m eager to start on book 2 but I definitely need a refresher.

“The truth is that the police reflect America in all of its will and fear, and whatever we might make of this country’s criminal justice policy, it cannot be said that it was imposed by a repressive minority.”

‘For my own writing, I like to watch the boxing matches, watch how the left jab is used, the overhand right, the left hook, the uppercut, the counterpunch. I like to watch them dig in, come off the canvas. There is something to be learned, something to be applied to the art of writing, the way of writing. You have just one chance and then it’s gone. There are only pages left, you might as well make them smoke.’

‘Sometimes with my writing, when it hasn’t roared, I have attempted other things. I have poured wine on the pages, I have held the pages to a match and burned holes in them. “What are you DOING in there? I smell smoke!”’

“When you have nothing to say,
set something on fire.”

“All I need is a splash of iced coffee and a fist full of gummy bears, and I can write a novel (I’ve never written a novel).”

This... can’t be unintentional.

“As I kept passing and repassing the filling [...] using my own hand for the shuttle, and as Queequeg [...] slid his heavy oaken sword between the threads [...] and unthinkingly drove home every yarn [...] hitting the woof slantingly, or crookedly, or strongly [...] not to be swerved from its ultimate course - its every alternating vibration, indeed, only tending to that[.]”

“[...] he’d stopped dreaming. Sleep took much longer to arrive than it ever had before. He’d lost the direction of it; he could lie down, but he couldn’t turn towards it anymore. There was a broken compass somewhere in him. He was so ashamed that he couldn’t come anywhere near speaking it.

“If he sat still and let himself think, he could feel all the snapped filaments and cracked places.”